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Updated: May 6, 2025
In the contents-bill of a local news sheet I read the announcement of my own murder at the hands of some person unknown; on buying a copy of the paper for a detailed account of the tragedy, which at first had aroused in me a certain grim amusement, I found that the deed ascribed to a wandering Salvationist of doubtful antecedents, who had been seen lurking in the roadway near the scene of the crime.
Then it was that Miss Ingate, who since Charing Cross had been a little excited by a glimpsed newspaper contents-bill indicating suffragette riots that morning, perceived, through the open door of the cabin, a most beautiful and most elegant girl, attired impeccably in that ritualistic garb of travel which the truly cosmopolitan wear on combined rail-and-ocean journeys and on no other occasions.
He was told I was at Vine Street. He went down there and was told I hadn't been there. "'Here's a piece of luck, he says to himself, and went back to his office. There he wrote up a couple of columns telling how the whole of the C.I.D. had lost trace of me. I came out of Bow Street, where I'd been giving evidence in a case, to see a big contents-bill staring me in the face
May met him at the door of the sitting-room, but did not speak, while he opened out the paper, and in silence showed her the six columns, containing a verbatim report of the meeting. "What do you think of that?" he asked, and without waiting for an answer he spread the contents-bill upon the table. "This is better," he went on, bitterly. "Read this!" And she read: RUCTIONS IN LEARNING'S HOME.
"Honourable" and Gulmore the two words wouldn't go together. Could it be? A glance at the contents-bill brought a flush to his face. He gave a quarter for the sheet, and as the boy fumbled for change he said, taking hold of the bill: "I want this too; you can keep the rest of the money," and hurried into the house.
"Honourable" and Gulmore the two words wouldn't go together. Could it be? A glance at the contents-bill brought a flush to his face. He gave a quarter for the sheet, and as the boy fumbled for change he said, taking hold of the bill: "I want this too; you can keep the rest of the money," and hurried into the house.
In the inner room Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery and was engaged on making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows, and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back. She had not expected Sam to return so instantaneously.
In the inner room, Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery, and was engaged in making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back. She had not expected Sam to return so instantaneously.
"Do you know a rope and string shop near the Granville Theatre of Varieties at Walham Green?" "No, sir." "Well, there is one. Tell him to stop at the Granville." "Yessir." The Major resumed his bland conversation. At Putney they saw the first contents-bill of the afternoon papers. "How do you think things are going, sir?" George asked. "It's very difficult to say," answered the Major.
May met him at the door of the sitting-room, but did not speak, while he opened out the paper, and in silence showed her the six columns, containing a verbatim report of the meeting. "What do you think of that?" he asked, and without waiting for an answer he spread the contents-bill upon the table. "This is better," he went on, bitterly. "Read this!" And she read: Ructions in Learning's Home.
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