Her Forbidden Knight
“Knowlton tonight,” he knew that the thing was as good as done. Detective Barrett was a man to be depended upon.
But Billy Sherman never depended upon anybody. He made the rather common mistake of judging humanity from the inside—of himself—and the result was that he had acquired a distorted opinion of human nature. His topsyturvy logic went something like this, though not exactly in this form: “I am a man. I am bad. Therefore, all men are bad.”
And there is more of that sort of reasoning in the... world than we are willing to admit.
Sherman did not go so far as to distrust Detective Barrett, but he had an idea that he wanted to see the thing for himself. Accordingly, shortly after six o’clock in the evening he posted himself in a doorway opposite Knowlton’s rooms on Thirtieth Street.
He had been there but a few minutes when he was startled by the sight of Lila approaching and entering the house. This led to a long consideration of probabilities which ended in a grim smile. He thought: “If they get her, too, all the better.MoreLess
But Billy Sherman never depended upon anybody. He made the rather common mistake of judging humanity from the inside—of himself—and the result was that he had acquired a distorted opinion of human nature. His topsyturvy logic went something like this, though not exactly in this form: “I am a man. I am bad. Therefore, all men are bad.”
And there is more of that sort of reasoning in the... world than we are willing to admit.
Sherman did not go so far as to distrust Detective Barrett, but he had an idea that he wanted to see the thing for himself. Accordingly, shortly after six o’clock in the evening he posted himself in a doorway opposite Knowlton’s rooms on Thirtieth Street.
He had been there but a few minutes when he was startled by the sight of Lila approaching and entering the house. This led to a long consideration of probabilities which ended in a grim smile. He thought: “If they get her, too, all the better.MoreLess
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