Cynthia Wakeham's Money

By: Green, Anna Katharine

Book Excerpt: ded street which in the daylight and in the full brightness of a summer's sun I had usually found so attractive, but which at night and under the circumstances which had brought me there looked both sombre and forbidding. However I had not come upon an errand of pleasure, so I did not spend much time in contemplating my surroundings, but beckoning to the conductor of the street-car on which I was riding, I asked him if he knew Mrs. Wakeham's house, and when he nodded, asked him to set me down before it. I thought he gave me a queer look, but as his attention was at that moment diverted, I could not be sure of it, and before he came my way again the car had stopped and he was motioning to me to alight."'That is the house, ' said he, pointing to two huge gate-posts glimmering whitely in the light of a street-lamp opposite, and I was on the sidewalk and in front of the two posts before I remembered that a man on the rear platform of the car had muttered as I stepped by him: 'A visitor for Widow Wakeham, eRead Mor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798712143535
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"