The Lost House
Richard Harding Davis
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Richard Harding Davis opens The Lost House on a dull day at the American chancellery in London. The ambassador is in Scotland unveiling a bust of Bobby Burns, the First Secretary watches a sham battle at Aldershot, and the attachés are at a football match and a pheasant shoot. The Second Secretary, alone, has just confided a state secret to his friend Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic. Ford promises to cable it disguised as news from a Hungarian diplomat en route to Patagonia.
He really came, though, to ask about an international polo match. The Secretary begins a lecture: polo is a proposition of ponies, since men can be trained but ponies must be born. A page then interrupts with a visitor carrying an important note for the ambassador.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Richard Harding Davis |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 123 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |