The Lady Evelyn

"The Lady Evelyn" is an absorbing story by Sir Max Pemberton, who was a famous English novelist working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres.

Excerpt from «The Lady Evelyn»

"The station-master, who had been giving the whole weight of his intelligence to a brown paper parcel with no address upon it, here chimed in to ask a question in that patronizing manner pocul iar to station-masters.

Did his lordship expect you, sir i he asked with some emphasis; as though, had it been the case, he certainly should have been informed of it The reply found him all civility."