The Cab Of The Sleeping Horse
By John Reed Scott
AUTHOR OF
The Woman in Question,The Man In Evening Clothes,etc.
Frontispiece By William Van Dresser
She Threw Up Her Hand, And A Nasty Little Automatic WasCovering The Secretary’s Heart. Drawn by William Van Dresser. (Chapter 24.)
A.L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with G.P. Putnam’s Sons
1916
Contents
The Cab of The Sleeping Horse
I—The Photograph
“A beautiful woman is never especially clever,” Rochester remarked.
Harleston blew a smoke ring at the big drop-light on the table and watched itswirl under the cardinal shade.
“The cleverest woman I know is also the most beautiful,” he replied. “Yes, Ican name her offhand. She has all the finesse of her sex, together with thereasoning mind; she is surpassingly good to look at, and knows how to use herlooks to obtain her end; as the occasion demands, she can be as cold as steelor warm as a summer’s night; she—”
“How are her morals?” Rochester interrupted.
“Morals or the want of them do not, I take it, enter into the question,”Harleston responded. “Cleverness is quite apart from morals.”