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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Ah!" he muttered, shining the light upon a row of yellow-bound volumes from which he had commenced his tour of inspection and to which that tour had now led him back, "it is uncanny this!" He glanced back at the rectangular patch of light which marked the trap whereby he had entered this supernormal room. A second trap was revealed, identical with that through which he had entered!
"I believe more books have been written on chess than on any other individual subject in the world, barring Masonry," she said. "And the next one to it the yellow-bound one is a book about old English games; not games of chance, but games for holidays and parties. I was glancing through it in my car on the way here from the shop. It's most interesting.
I took down the history from between Rich's thin grey 'Ruins of Babylon' and a yellow-bound railway novel. Towards the close of the eighteenth century a learned gentleman had taken much pains to gather together this account of the town. He began with the story of Brutus, and showed that one of the monarchs descended from the illustrious Trojan founded a city here.
Harland, Beardsley, Max Beerbohm and two or three others whose faces have grown dim in my memory, everybody as unwilling to break up the meeting as on Thursday nights in our Buckingham Street rooms. But to me, the bright yellow-bound volumes mean youth, gay, irresponsible, credulous, hopeful youth, and Thursday night at Buckingham Street in full swing.
Suddenly, on the path in front of the seat, she saw a still burning cigarette, and on the seat a book lying. She stopped short; then sank upon the seat, her eyes fixed upon the book. It was a yellow-bound French novel, and on the outside was written in a hand she knew, a name that startled every pulse in her young body. His book? And that cigarette?
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