MRS. GEORGE CORBETT,
Author of
“Adventures of a Lady Detective,”
“New Amazonia,” “Pharisees Unveiled,”
“The Adventures of an Ugly Girl,” “Mrs. Grundy’s Victims,”
“Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office,”
etc., etc.
LONDON:
Tower Publishing Company, Limited, 95, Minories, E.C.
1894.
WHEN THE SEA GIVES UP
ITS DEAD.
CHAPTER I.
“THE DIAMOND ROBBERY.”
“Confound that upset! I shall be two minutes behind time—I wish I had walked all the way, instead of trusting to the supposed extra speed of a ’bus, when the streets are so slippery that horses cannot keep their feet.”