The Surprises of an Empty Hotel (1916)

The Hotel Continental on the seacoast is emptied one season of its tenants by an epidemic of diphtheria, and the patrons never return. Francis Trehurn Marchmont was one of its regular patrons, who, while engaged in a copper deal, had been gobbled up by the trust in the person of Thomas Cadwallader Bennt, the copper magnate. Marchmont later learned that the man he hate... Read all