Excerpt from Whispering Wires
In the greatest city of the modern world, in the Metropolis of Guilt and Guile - where Alias and Alibi ride in gum-shod limousines while Mary Smith of the pure heart walks the pavements with broken shoes - there is a mansion so rich and so rare that it stands alone.
Turret and tower, green-bronze roof, Cararra-marbled portico and iron-grilled gates brought from Hyderabad, have made this mansion the show place and the Peri"s paradise for those who parade the Avenue called Fifth, in an unending sash of fashion.
Out from this palace at the close of a winter"s day, there flashed the tiny pulsations of voice-induced currents of electricity which reached the telephone-central, were plugged upon the proper underground paper-insulated wires and entered, even as the voice was speaking, the cloud-hung office of Detective Drew.
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