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Updated: June 11, 2025
Then he perched himself on the edge of the centre-table and remarked easily: "Your master did not take you to town with him, then." "I am the head servant and he leaves me in charge of the house. It's a strong, young chap that travels with our master. If God forbid there was some accident on the road he would be of much more use than I."
The buttons returned and delivered the key of Sir Henry Darlington's apartment into the hands of Raffles Holmes. Ten minutes later we sat in room 407 I in a blue funk from sheer nervousness, Raffles Holmes as imperturbable as the rock of Gibraltar from sheer nerve. It was the usual style of hotel room, with bath, pictures, telephone, what-nots, wardrobes, and centre-table.
Between a grand piano and a centre-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation. His heavy arms hung loosely at his sides.
I noticed that after a furtive glance at me each of them looked at the centre-table, on which lay my brier, Romulus and Remus, three other pipes that all had their merits, though they never touched my heart until now, my clay tobacco-jar, and my old pouch. I had said good-by to these before my friends came in, and I could now speak with a comparatively firm voice.
"I have just written to Chivers that two hundred thousand dollars will now be necessary if he wants those phonographic records. "March 11. I have had a talk with Louis, the janitor, about the Barowsky 'affairs. Three men found dead in the big chair that faces the centre-table in my living-room. The date in every case was the 21st of March.
There on the centre-table you will discover "Snow Bound," by John Greenleaf Whittier; Tupper's Poems; a large embossed Bible; the family plush album; and a book, with a gilt ladder on the cover which leads upward to gilt stars, called the "Path of Life." On the wall are two companion pictures of a rosy fat child, in faded gilt frames, one called "Wide Awake" the other "Fast Asleep."
I found much entertainment in the room, and on the centre-table, a beautiful bit of furniture, carved out of one huge amethyst, I discovered a number of books and magazines, which kept me tolerably busy for a half-hour.
Having lunched upon more coffee, he returned to the house at two o'clock, carrying the framed photograph with him, and placed it upon the centre-table in the library, the room most used by Isabel and Fanny and himself. Then he went to a front window of the long "reception room," and sat looking out through the lace curtains.
Philip stood in front of the fireplace with the morning papers piled high on the centre-table and scattered over the room about him. He had read them all, and he knew now what it was to wake up famous, but he could not taste it. Now that it had come it meant nothing, and that it was so complete a triumph only made it the harder.
She writes of this visit: Imagine a quiet little parlor with a bright coal fire, and the gaslight burning above a centre-table, about which Hatty, Fred, and I are seated. Fred is as happy as happy can be to be with mother and sister once more. All day yesterday we spent in getting him.
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