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Updated: June 19, 2025
For that one second I can chance throwing this letter out into the street. I shall load it with a cut-glass ball I found on my desk. It is a beautiful little paper-weight, but its beauty won't save it this time. Someone will surely take the letter to you. Where to find you is my worry. But I know that the signal flashes could only mean that you are in the city, so I am risking the New Willard.
"'Cause I didn't hafto," was the snappish reply. "I bet my mama give her the finest present they is," bragged the smaller boy; "I reckon it cost 'bout a million dollars." "Mother gave her a handsome cut-glass vase," said Lina. "It looks like Doctor Sanford would've give Miss Cecilia those twinses for a wedding present," said Frances.
"No one else?" asked the detective sharply. "And Mr. Gaston Max," added the man. "You'll find whisky and cigars upon the table there, sir." He left the room. Dunbar glanced across at Sowerby, his tufted brows raised, and a wry smile upon his face. "In at the death, Sowerby!" he said grimly, and lifted the stopper from the cut-glass decanter.
Handsome rugs are spread in front of the sofas; neat curtains drop before the windows; English engravings ornament the whitewashed walls; and china, silver, and cut-glass, and the like, are displayed upon the cabinets or corner-tables. But the poor live in huts which are decidedly much more Icelandic.
For the absence of vice with the absence of morals are not incongruous in a human face. Sophie went into another room for a moment, and brought back a quaint cut-glass bottle of cordial. "It is very good," she said, as she took the cork out; "better than peach brandy or things like that."
A bed hung with white curtains, a dressing bureau, with its fancy pincushion, and numerous cut-glass bottles of perfumery, a lounge covered with bright patchwork, and furnished with log-cabin cushions, easy-chairs and ottomans, together with the workstand and its inseparable little basket filled with every indispensable for needlework all, all bore the trace of woman's hand.
"No," he said, shaking his head doubtfully. He had tried to dissolve a little of the powder in some water from the glass before him, but it would not dissolve. As he continued to look at it his eye fell on the cut-glass vinegar cruet before us. It was full of the white vinegar. "Really acetic acid," he remarked, pouring out a little. The white powder dissolved.
I started home with a lump in my throat and a weight in my heart, feeling it really wasn't a home that I was driving toward. But it was one of those crystal-clear prairie nights when the stars were like electric-lights shining through cut-glass and the air was like a razor-blade wrapped in panne-velvet. It took you out of yourself.
A cut-glass chandelier hung from the ceiling, and expensive but ill-assorted European furniture stood about the apartment. French mechanical toys under glass shades crowded the tables. The Rajah was a fat and sensual-looking young man, with bloated face and bloodshot that eyes spoke eloquently of his excesses.
Beside the pillow was a tiny reading-stand and on this was a candle and a book with thought of her old habit of reading after she had come home from pleasures like those of to-night when they were pleasures. Beside the book her maid had set a little cut-glass vase of blossoms which had opened since she put them there were just opening now. "How can I read? How can I sleep?"
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