Excerpt from The Mystery of Lombardy Chambers
Queen Street, Melbourne, after six in the evening becomes practically deserted. There are no lighted shop windows, picture-shows, theatres, clubs, or even open hotels to keep people about. At the hour of 10 p.m., nothing but an occasional ghoul drifts slowly down the gloomy footpaths, or perhaps a late office-worker patters rapidly along in order to leave the sombre neighbourhood behind as soon as possible. The road traffic is negligible.
Far above the pavement, a square of light shone steadily from a front window in the tall Lombardy Chambers. Excepting for a wan street lamp it was the only patch of light in the whole dark block. Since dusk had fallen, some three hours previously, that window had been conspicuous among its neighbours.
In the room behind, absorbed in his lonely occupation, sat a young man.
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