![]() ![]() "Do you think that I would bother myself long about a house I had no interest in, or drag Rudge from his warm rug to save some ungrateful neighbor from a possible burglary? No, it is my house which some rogue has chosen to enter. ![]() "What other?" he grumbled, directing toward me a look as keen as it was impatient. "Are you speaking of the Moore house?"Ī thousand recollections came with the name. "The Moore house?" I repeated in amazement. It was all so trivial that I gave him but scant attention till he let a name fall which caused me to prick up my ears and even to put in a word. But when he began to talk I detected an unmistakable tremor in his tones, and decided that he was in a state of suppressed agitation though he appeared to have nothing more alarming to impart than the fact that he had seen a light burning in some house presumably empty. I had even seen him more than once on the avenue, but I had never before been brought face to face with him, and consequently had much too superficial a knowledge of his countenance to determine offhand whether the uneasy light in his small gray eyes was natural to them, or simply the result of present excitement. I had long since heard of the old gentleman as one of the most interesting residents of the precinct. He was always called Uncle David, even by the urchins who followed him in the street so I am showing him no disrespect, gentleman though he is, by giving him a title which as completely characterized him in those days, as did his moody ways, his quaint attire and the persistence with which he kept at his side his great mastiff, Rudge. I was at the station-house the night Uncle David came in. In its course I encountered as many disappointments as triumphs, and brought out of the affair a heart as sore as it was satisfied for I am a lover of women and–īut I am keeping you from the story itself. This is why I propose to tell the story of this great tragedy from my own standpoint, even if in so doing I risk the charge of attempting to exploit my own connection with this celebrated case. It had complications, this Jeffrey-Moore affair greater ones than the public ever knew, keen as the interest in it ran both in and out of Washington. ![]() Therefore, when I found myself plunged, almost without my own volition, into the Jeffrey-Moore affair, I believed that the opportunity had come whereby I might distinguish myself. Though I had small reason for expecting great things of myself, I had always cherished the hope that if a big case came my way I should be found able to do something with it–something more, that is, than I had seen accomplished by the police of the District of Columbia since I had had the honor of being one of their number. #FINAL FANTASY XIV LODESTONE BUTTERED TOASTY FULL#A Celebration of Women Writers The Filigree Ball.Īnna Katherine Green ,īEING A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY CONCERNING THE JEFFREY-MOORE AFFAIRĬONTENTS BOOK I CHAPTER PAGE I "THE MOORE HOUSE?" 1įor a detective whose talents had not been recognized at headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet been expressed in words. ![]()
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