A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men - Softcover

Locke, William J.

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9781517745844: A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men

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ISBN 10: 1517745845 ISBN 13: 9781517745844

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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“If you wish to be lifted out of the petty cares of today, read one of Locke’s novels.” -Baltimore Sun

He was an iron-faced, beetle-browed, stern man, and this morning he did not seem to be in the best of tempers. Finding his companions inclined to be sympathetic, he continued his lamentation.

"And merely because it's Christmas I've had to shut up my laboratory and give my young fools a holiday--just when I was in the midst of a most important series of experiments."

Professor Biggleswade, who had heard vaguely of and rather looked down upon such new-fangled toys as radium and thorium and helium and argon--for the latest astonishing developments in the theory of radio-activity had brought Sir Angus McCurdie his world-wide fame--said somewhat ironically:

"If the experiments were so important, why didn't you lock yourself up with your test tubes and electric batteries and finish them alone?"

"Man!" said McCurdie, bending across the carriage, and speaking with a curious intensity of voice, "d'ye know I'd give a hundred pounds to be able to answer that question?"

"What do you mean?" asked the Professor, startled.

"I should like to know why I'm sitting in this damned train and going to visit a couple of addle-headed society people whom I'm scarcely acquainted with, when I might be at home in my own good company furthering the progress of science."

"I myself," said the Professor, "am not acquainted with them at all."

It was Sir Angus McCurdie's turn to look surprised.

"Then why are you spending Christmas with them?"

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About the Author:

William John Locke (1863-1930) was a British novelist and playwright. He was born in the British colony Demerara, now called Guyana, and was educated in Trinidad and at Cambridge. Locke became a teacher in 1890 and secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1897; he also remained a corresponding member of many European architectural societies, But Locke is best known as a novelist. His most famous works are The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (1905) and The Beloved Vagabond (1906).

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