He decided that he would follow the singular recital on the dickey backs and rip off a chapter at a time.
After a night of fortifying slumber, Dennis arose, breakfasted, and boarded an elevated train, which presently conveyed him to the vicinity of Central Park.
Here, after securing a seat to his fancy, he withdrew Series B from the wrapper, detached bosom No. 1 and began.
CHAPTER V
When Raikes had parted from the Sepoy, a degree of his customary hardness and assurance was evident in his manner.
He had been able to comment sagaciously upon the extraordinary narrative, and had appropriated as much of the sapphire as his greedy glance and covetous memory could bear away; but now that he pursued his way along the dimly lighted hallway which led to his apartment, a singularly thoughtful mood oppressed him.
This phenomenon, due, in part, to the cessation of the drowsy cadences of the Sepoy and the absence of the fascination and gleam of the sapphire, was relegated by Raikes to the overtures of approaching drowsiness.
And yet the startling episode which confronted Prince Otondo in the evening’s instalment of this Oriental complication recurred to his mind again and again.