The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day

Robert Neilson Stephens

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DAVENPORT ***
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Distributed ProofreadersTHE MYSTERY OF MURRAY
DAVENPORT
A Story of New York at the Present Day
By
Robert Neilson Stephens
1903
Works of Robert Neilson Stephens
An Enemy to the King
The Continental Dragoon
The Road to Paris
A Gentleman Player
Philip Winwood
Captain Ravenshaw
The Mystery of Murray Davenport
[Illustration: "'DO YOU KNOW WHAT A "JONAH"
IS?'"]CONTENTS
I. MR. LARCHER GOES OUT IN THE RAIN
II. ONE OUT OF SUITS WITH FORTUNE
III. A READY-MONEY MAN
IV. AN UNPROFITABLE CHILD
V. A LODGING BY THE RIVER
VI. THE NAME OF ONE TURL COMES UP
VII. MYSTERY BEGINS
VIII. MR. LARCHER INQUIRES
IX. MR. BUD'S DARK HALLWAY
X. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
XI. FLORENCE DECLARES HER ALLEGIANCE
XII. LARCHER PUTS THIS AND THAT
TOGETHERXIII. MR. TURL WITH HIS BACK TO THE WALL
XIV. A STRANGE DESIGN
XV. TURL'S NARRATIVE CONTINUED
XVI. AFTER THE DISCLOSURE
XVII. BAGLEY SHINES OUT
XVIII. FLORENCELIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'DO YOU KNOW WHAT A "JONAH" IS?'"
"THE PLAY BECAME THE PROPERTY OF
BAGLEY"
"'I'M AFRAID IT'S A CASE OF MYSTERIOUS
DISAPPEARANCE'"
"'YOU'RE QUITE WELCOME TO THE USE OF
MY AUTOMOBILE'"
"TURL, HAVING TAKEN A MOMENT'S
PRELIMINARY THOUGHT, BEGAN HIS
ACCOUNT"
"'GOOD EVENING, MR. MURRAY DAVENPORT!
HOW ABOUT MY BUNCH OF MONEY?'"THE MYSTERY OF MURRAY
DAVENPORTCHAPTER I.
MR. LARCHER GOES OUT IN THE RAIN
The night set in with heavy and unceasing rain,
and, though the month was August, winter itself
could not have made the streets less inviting than
they looked to Thomas Larcher. Having dined at
the caterer's in the basement, and got the damp of
the afternoon removed from his clothes and dried
out of his skin, he stood at his window and gazed
down at the reflections of the lights on the watery
asphalt. The few people he saw were hastening
laboriously under umbrellas which guided torrents
down their backs and left their legs and feet open
to the pour. Clean and dry in his dressing-gown
and slippers, Mr. Larcher turned toward his easy
chair and oaken bookcase, and thanked his stars
that no engagement called him forth. On such a
night there was indeed no place like home, limited
though home was to a second-story "bed sitting-
room" in a house of "furnished rooms to let" on a
crosstown street traversing the part of New York
dominated by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Mr. Larcher, who was a blue-eyed young man of
medium size and medium appearance every way,
with a smooth shaven, clear-skinned face whereon
sat good nature overlaid with self-esteem, spread
himself in his chair, and made ready for content.
Just then there was a knock at his door, and a