police-record

Updated: May 10, 2025

"Madame de Chantelle seems to imagine," she pursued, "that a young American girl ought to have a dossier a police-record, or whatever you call it: what those awful women in the streets have here. In our country it's enough to know that a young girl's pure and lovely: people don't immediately ask her to show her bank-account and her visiting-list."

Edith Wharton - The Reef

The clue thus furnished had been lost in St. Louis, but was picked up again, some months later, by Cummings himself through the police-record photograph in Denver. Cummings admitted that he had followed Polly and me on our wedding journey; that he had known where we were stopping, and had seen us in the canyon-brink hotel. "Why didn't you take me then?" I asked.

Francis Lynde - Branded