Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 2 of 3

It was in the dusk of a dull winter's evening, when business men were hurrying westwards from the city, and fine ladies were driving home from the parks, that Charles Lanfear, leaving the office where he too had been doing his day's work like the rest, turned up the darkening streets to his lodgings in Bloomsbury. He was not a man to attract attention by any outward peculiarity, being just of average condition in most things - in height, in colour, in dress, in bearing - and yet his face, when studied, had in it the signs of a history and a sorrow beyond that which even exceptional men often know.

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