The Lodger
The Lodger
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
"Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness." PSALM lxxxviii. 18
CHAPTER I
Robert Bunting and Ellen his wife sat before their dully burning, carefully-banked-up fire.
The room, especially when it be known that it was part of a house standing in a grimy, if not exactly sordid, London thoroughfare, was exceptionally clean and well-cared-for. A casual stranger, more particularly one of a ...