Explore "When Rogues Fall Out" by R. Austin Freeman on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
IT was a little over a week after his acquisition of the clock that Mr. Toke's forebodings began to be realized. On that day, about eleven in the forenoon, his house keeper, Mrs. Gibbins, came to him as he sat in his study writing letters, and announced with something of an air of mystery that a man wished to see him.
"A man? " Mr. Toke repeated. "Do you mean a gentleman?"