The Lady of Ascot

Автор книги: Edgar Wallace id книги: 2198939 Оценка: 0.0 Голосов: 0 Отзывы, комментарии: 0 0 руб. (0$) Читать книгу Скачать бесплатно Электронная книга Жанр: Языкознание Правообладатель и/или издательство: Bookwire Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: 11 ноября 2021, 16:32 ISBN: 4066338098405 Скачать фрагмент в формате fb2 fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

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Edgar Wallace

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Though it wanted a little time to the period when every house in Ascot would be occupied, there was in residence quite a number of important people, including a belted earl whose young wife had a weakness for sapphires. She had sapphire rings and clips and bracelets of an incredible value, and she "travelled" them, as they say in theatrical circles.

One night when she was entertaining a select party to dinner some person or persons unknown put up a ladder, mounted to her bedroom, smashed the safe which was on the right-hand side of her bed, and took three precious cases of stones. The intruder would have escaped unobserved, but a maid entered the bedroom. She did not at first see the intruder, and, when she did, saw little that would help in identification, for a black silk stocking covered the face. The girl opened her mouth to scream, but a hand "like a vice", as she dramatized it, caught her by the throat and "strangled her scream".

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