{"product_id":"2940013621770","title":"THE SHRIEKING PIT","description":"THE SHRIEKING PIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColwyn had never seen anything quite so eccentric in a public room as\u003cbr\u003ethe behaviour of the young man breakfasting alone at the alcove table in\u003cbr\u003ethe bay embrasure, and he became so absorbed in watching him that he\u003cbr\u003epermitted his own meal to grow cold, impatiently waving away the waiter\u003cbr\u003ewho sought with obtrusive obsequiousness to recall his wandering\u003cbr\u003eattention by thrusting the menu card before him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo outward seeming the occupant of the alcove table was a good-looking\u003cbr\u003eyoung man, whose clear blue eyes, tanned skin and well-knit frame\u003cbr\u003eindicated the truly national product of common sense, cold water, and\u003cbr\u003eout-of-door pursuits; of a wholesomely English if not markedly\u003cbr\u003eintellectual type, pleasant to look at, and unmistakably of good birth\u003cbr\u003eand breeding. When a young man of this description, your fellow guest at\u003cbr\u003ea fashionable seaside hotel, who had been in the habit of giving you a\u003cbr\u003ecourteous nod on his morning journey across the archipelago of\u003cbr\u003esnowy-topped tables under the convoy of the head waiter to his own\u003cbr\u003etable, comes in to breakfast with shaking hands, flushed face, and\u003cbr\u003epasses your table with unseeing eyes, you would probably conclude that\u003cbr\u003ehe was under the influence of liquor, and in your English way you would\u003cbr\u003eseverely blame him, not so much for the moral turpitude involved in his\u003cbr\u003eexcess as for the bad taste, which prompted him to show himself in public\u003cbr\u003ein such a condition. If, on reaching his place, the young man's conduct\u003cbr\u003etook the additional extravagant form of picking up a table-knife and\u003cbr\u003esticking it into the table in front of him, you would probably enlarge\u003cbr\u003eyour previous conclusion by admitting the hypotheses of drugs or\u003cbr\u003edementia to account for such remarkable behaviour.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082995450096,"sku":"2940013621770","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013621770_p0.jpg?v=1763583583","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013621770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}