Blue Hand
Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
I
R. Septimus Salter pressed the bell on his table for the third time and uttered a soft growl.
He was a stout, elderly man, and with his big red face and white side-whiskers, looked more like a prosperous farmer than a successful lawyer. The cut of his clothes was queerly out of date, the high white collar and the black satin cravat that bulged above a flowered waistcoat were of the fashion of 1850, in which year Mr. Salter was a little ahead of his time so far as fashions were concerned. But the years had caught him up and passed him, and although there was not a more up-to-date solicitor in London, he remained faithful to the style in which he had made a reputation as a “buck.”
He pressed the bell again, this time impatiently.
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