black-etched

Updated: May 4, 2025

Argenter's maid was bringing out the tray with delicate black-etched china cups, and costly fruit plates illuminated with color, and dainty biscuits, and large, rare, red berries, and cream that would hardly pour for richness in a gleaming crystal flagon, and ranging them all on the rustic veranda table, something very different, very grim, at which the occupants of rooms near by shuddered as it passed their open doors, was borne down the long, wide corridor to Number Five, in the Metropolitan; and at the same moment, again, a gentleman, very grave, was standing at the counter of the Merchants' Union Telegraph Company's Office, writing with rapid hand, a brief dispatch, addressed to "Mrs.

A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney - The Other Girls