Unravelled Knots

BARONESS ORCZY
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923, 1924, 1925, AND 1926, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY UNRAVELLED KNOTS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
By BARONESS ORCZY
UNRAVELLED KNOTS PIMPERNEL AND ROSEMARY THE HONOURABLE JIM THE TRIUMPH OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL NICOLETTE CASTLES IN THE AIR THE FIRST SIR PERCY HIS MAJESTY'S WELL-BELOVED THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL FLOWER O' THE LILY THE MAN IN GREY LORD TONY'S WIFE LEATHERFACE THE BRONZE EAGLE A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS THE LAUGHING CAVALIER UNTO CAESAR EL DORADO MEADOWSWEET THE NOBLE ROGUE THE HEART OF A WOMAN PETTICOAT RULE
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UNRAVELLED KNOTS
I cannot pretend to say how it all happened. I can but relate what occurred, leaving those of my friends who are versed in psychic matters to find a plausible explanation for the fact that on that horrible foggy afternoon I chanced to walk into that blameless teashop at that particular hour.
Now, I had not been inside a teashop for years, and I had almost ceased to think of the Old Man in the Corner—the weird, spook-like creature with the baggy trousers, the huge horn-rimmed spectacles, and the thin claw-like hands that went on fidgeting, fidgeting, fidgeting with a piece of string, tying it with nervy deliberation into innumerable and complicated knots.