The Circular Staircase -- Chapter XI
CHAPTER XI: HALSEY MAKES A CAPTURE
It was about half-past eight when we left the dining-room, and still engrossed with one subject, the failure of the bank and its attendant evils, Halsey and I went out into the grounds for a stroll. Gertrude followed us shortly. “The light was thickening,” to appropriate Shakespeare’s description of twilight, and once a…
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