Wardon Allan Curtis

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis

It was a lowering and gloomy night in the early part of the present century. Mr. EdwardMiddleton, a gallant youth, who had but lately passed his twenty-third year, was faringnorthward along the southern part of that famous avenue of commerce, Clark Street, inthe city of Chicago, wending his way toward the emporium of Mr. Marks Cohen. Suddenly the rain which the cloudy heaven had been promising for many hours, beganto descend in great scattered drops that presaged a heavy shower...