The Loot of Cities, Being the Adventures of a Millionaire in Search of Joy, (a Fantasia) —— And Other Stories

----- 城市的掠夺，成为寻求欢乐的百万富翁的冒险，（幻想曲）

ISBN: 9781330900512 出版年：2016 页码：254 Arnold Bennett Forgotten Books

The feeble exclamation was all he could achieve at first. In the confined, hot silence of the telephone-cabinet this message, coming to him mysteriously out of the vast unknown of London, struck him with a sudden sick fear that perhaps his wondrously organised scheme might yet mis carry, even at the final moment. Why that night of all nights? And why before nine o'clock? Could it be that the secret was out, then?