The Unlighted House A Novel Author:James Hay General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or mis... more »sing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IN THE REV1S HOUSE MR. GEORGE DARDEN stood in the yard of the large house which Edward Eevis had rented, far out on Thirty- third street in the older part of the town. He was a few feet from the areaway, and invisible in the deep shadow of the cedar tree whose low-hung branches creaked dismally under the lashing of a high wind. Although it was not yet midnight, there were no lights visible in the house. Outside, a fitful illumination from the guttering arc- light at the corner gave him brief glimpses of the grey belt of cement walk, twenty yards in length perhaps, leading from the front steps to the pavement of the street. Five minutes passed. The detective, without an overcoat, stood patient and moveless, apparently impervious to the bitter cold. His gaze was always toward the street. As he had expected, a man appeared at the far end of the cement walk, his footfalls inaudible in the booming of the wind. The newcomer, however, in an excess of caution, kept off the walk and made his way to the house on the soft surface of the dead sod of the yard. At the foot of the front steps, where a rent in the foliage of the cedars let through a flash of light from the street lamp, his face was for a moment clearly visible to the hidden watcher. That brought Darden his first surprise. Contrary to his expectation, he did not recognize the man. In another second the stranger, his slender figure hardly distinguishable in the massive shadows, had started a carefu...« less