by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood

Name: The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye
Author: by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood

The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

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“The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye”, published in 1926, is a work by by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. It explores elements such as Lizzie, Dale and Van Gorder.

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ Anderson waited a few seconds, then moved noiselessly over to the hall door—listened—opened it suddenly—closed it again. Then he proceeded to examine the alcove—the stairs, where the gleaming eye had wavered like a corpse-candle before Lizzie's affrighted vision. He tested the terrace door and bolted it. How much truth had there been in her story? He could not decide—but he drew out his revolver nevertheless and gave it a quick inspection to see if it was in working order. A smile crept over his face—the smile of a man who has dangerous work to do and does not shrink from the prospect. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ When he had finished he turned patiently toward the billiard room—the little flame of his candle was swallowed up in its dark recesses—he closed the door of the living-room behind him. The storm was dying away now, but a few flashes of lightning still flickered, lighting up the darkness of the deserted living-room now and then with a harsh, brief glare.
A lightning flash—a shadow cast abruptly on the shade of one of the French windows, to disappear as abruptly as the flash was blotted out—the shadow of a man—a prowler—feeling his way through the lightning-slashed darkness to the terrace door. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ Lizzie wailed, "I saw a ghost!" She turned to Miss Cornelia. "I begged you not to come here," she vociferated. "I begged you on my bended knees. There's a graveyard not a quarter of a mile away."
"Yes, and one more scare like that, Lizzie Allen, and you'll have me lying in it," said her mistress unsympathetically. She moved up to examine the scene of Lizzie's ghostly misadventure, while Anderson began to interrogate its heroine. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ But, in spite of her weariness, she could not quite resign herself to take Lizzie's story as lightly as the detective seemed to.
"If what Lizzie says is true," she said, taking her candle, "the upper floors of the house are even less safe than this one."
"I imagine Lizzie's account just now is about as reliable as her previous one as to her age," Anderson assured her. "I'm certain you need not worry. Just go on up and get your beauty sleep; I'm sure you need it."
On which ambiguous remark Miss Van Gorder took her leave, rather grimly smiling. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ The detective mused.
"Fellow of good family, I understand," he said, eyeing her. "Very popular. That's what's behind most of these bank embezzlements—men getting into society and spending more than they make."
Dale hailed the tinkle of the city telephone with an inward sigh of relief. The detective moved to answer the house phone on the wall by the alcove—mistaking the direction of the ring. Dale corrected him quickly.
"No, the other one—that's the house phone." Anderson looked the apparatus over. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ An eye—an eye as big as a saucer! It ran right up that staircase—" She indicated the alcove with a trembling forefinger. Miss Cornelia put her coffee-pot and her candle down on the table and opened her mouth to express her frank opinion of her factotum's sanity. But here the detective took charge.
"Now see here," he said with some sternness to the quaking Lizzie, "stop this racket and tell me what you saw!"
"A ghost!" persisted Lizzie, still hopping around on one leg. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ Do you think he would wreck his future like that?"
"Some people wouldn't call it wrecking a future to lay away a million dollars," said Anderson ominously. He came closer to Dale, fixing her with his eyes. ”

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by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat — VIII. the Gleaming Eye (1926)

“ He eyed her with a certain approval. She was a darned pretty girl and she looked intelligent. "I suppose you have a theory of your own about these intrusions you've been having here? Or apparently having." ”

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