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Updated: May 23, 2025
The young and pretty girl who had known that she would 'do it' hastened with assured steps, and as quickly as the jostling multitudes would allow, to the fur department. She was in pursuit of one of the silvered fox-stoles with real brush at each end. She had her husband's permission nay, his command to purchase a silvered fox-stole at a guinea if she could.
So Lily got away from the counter, plunged into a chartless sea of customers, and eventually emerged in the quarter which had been indicated. 'All sold out, miss! Such was the blunt answer to her demand for a silvered fox-stole. 'Don't talk to me like that! said Mrs. Albert Shawn. 'It isn't above half-past nine on the first morning of the sale, and you advertised two thousand of them.
Decidedly, many of the advertised bargains were remarkable in the highest degree. There was, for example, the 'fine silvered fox-stole, with real brush at each end, at a guinea. Every woman who can tell a silvered fox-stole from a cock's-feather boa is aware that a silvered fox-stole simply cannot be sold for a guinea.
'And send me all the buyers from the drapery department. They must go round and buy every silvered fox-stole in London to-night, at no matter what price. 'Certainly, sir. 'And telephone to Y.Z. that I shall be down there as soon as I can about these things. He touched the pile of yellow envelopes. Y.Z. was the name always given to the detectives' private room. 'Precisely, sir. 'That's all.
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