Opening of the book
ROOM 13
BY
EDGAR WALLACE
AUTHOR OF
“THE FOUR JUST MEN,” “CAPTAINS OF SOULS,”
“THE MISSING MILLION,” ETC.
London
John Long, Limited
12, 13 & 14 Norris Street, Haymarket
[All rights reserved]
[COPYRIGHT]
Made and
Printed in
Great Britain
Copyright, 1924, by
John Long, Limited
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[DEDICATION]
ТО MY FRIEND
SIR EMSLEY CARR, KT.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXVI
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXVII
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXVIII
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXIX
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXX
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXXI
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXXII
CƒĵǙǵŧǡ XXXIII
ROOM 13
CHAPTER I
O΄ŧǡ the grim stone archway was carved the words:
PARCERE SUBJECTIS.
In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions, Johnny
Gray translated this as “Parky Subjects”—it certainly had no significance as “Spare the Vanquished,” for he had been neither vanquished nor spared.
Day by day, harnessed to the shafts, he and Lal Morgon had pulled a heavy hand-cart up the steep slope, and day by day had watched absently the red-bearded gate-warder put his key in the big polished lock and snap open the gates. And then the little party had passed through, an armed warder leading, an armed warder behind, and the gate had closed.
And at four o’clock he had walked back under the archway and halted whilst the gate was unlocked and the hand-cart admitted.
Every building was hideously familiar. The gaunt “halls,” pitch painted against the Dartmoor storms, the low-roofed office, the gas
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