{"product_id":"2940013410220","title":"The House of a Thousand Candles","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003eI The Will of John Marshall Glenarm\u003cbr\u003eII A Face at Sherry’s\u003cbr\u003eIII The House of a Thousand Candles\u003cbr\u003eIV A Voice From the Lake\u003cbr\u003eV A Red Tam-O’-Shanter\u003cbr\u003eVI The Girl and the Canoe\u003cbr\u003eVII The Man on the Wall\u003cbr\u003eVIII A String of Gold Beads\u003cbr\u003eIX The Girl and the Rabbit\u003cbr\u003eX An Affair With the Caretaker\u003cbr\u003eXI I Receive a Caller\u003cbr\u003eXII I Explore a Passage\u003cbr\u003eXIII A Pair of Eavesdroppers\u003cbr\u003eXIV The Girl in Gray\u003cbr\u003eXV I Make an Engagement\u003cbr\u003eXVI The Passing of Olivia\u003cbr\u003eXVII Sister Theresa\u003cbr\u003eXVIII Golden Butterflies\u003cbr\u003eXIX I Meet an Old Friend\u003cbr\u003eXX A Triple Alliance\u003cbr\u003eXXI Pickering Serves Notice\u003cbr\u003eXXII The Return of Marian Devereux\u003cbr\u003eXXIII The Door of Bewilderment\u003cbr\u003eXXIV A Prowler of The Night\u003cbr\u003eXXV Besieged\u003cbr\u003eXXVI The Fight in the Library\u003cbr\u003eXXVII Changes and Chances\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII Shorter Vistas\u003cbr\u003eXXIX And So the Light Led Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe House of a Thousand Candles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WILL OF JOHN MARSHALL GLENARM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePickering’s letter bringing news of my grandfather’s\u003cbr\u003edeath found me at Naples early in October. John\u003cbr\u003eMarshall Glenarm had died in June. He had left a\u003cbr\u003ewill which gave me his property conditionally, Pickering\u003cbr\u003ewrote, and it was necessary for me to return immediately\u003cbr\u003eto qualify as legatee. It was the merest luck\u003cbr\u003ethat the letter came to my hands at all, for it had been\u003cbr\u003esent to Constantinople, in care of the consul-general\u003cbr\u003einstead of my banker there. It was not Pickering’s\u003cbr\u003efault that the consul was a friend of mine who kept\u003cbr\u003etrack of my wanderings and was able to hurry the\u003cbr\u003eexecutor’s letter after me to Italy, where I had gone to\u003cbr\u003emeet an English financier who had, I was advised, unlimited\u003cbr\u003emoney to spend on African railways. I am an\u003cbr\u003eengineer, a graduate of an American institution familiarly\u003cbr\u003eknown as “Tech,” and as my funds were running\u003cbr\u003elow, I naturally turned to my profession for employment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this letter changed my plans, and the following\u003cbr\u003eday I cabled Pickering of my departure and was outward\u003cbr\u003ebound on a steamer for New York. Fourteen\u003cbr\u003edays later I sat in Pickering’s office in the Alexis Building\u003cbr\u003eand listened intently while he read, with much\u003cbr\u003eponderous emphasis, the provisions of my grandfather’s\u003cbr\u003ewill. When he concluded, I laughed. Pickering was a\u003cbr\u003eserious man, and I was glad to see that my levity pained\u003cbr\u003ehim. I had, for that matter, always been a source of\u003cbr\u003eannoyance to him, and his look of distrust and rebuke\u003cbr\u003edid not trouble me in the least.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145636626672,"sku":"2940013410220","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013410220_p0.jpg?v=1763580933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013410220","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}