Excerpt from The Argyle Case "No sir, not a cent! I warned you that I'd have nothing to do with you if you disobeyed me. In spite of all I said you have deliberately defied me by marrying the girl. You must take the consequences. I disown you. You'll never get a penny of my money." John Argyle, his face purple with rage, his white hair and carefully trimmed whiskers bristling with anger, paced up and down the library of his palatial Fifth Avenue home, while a young man, barely in his twenties, his face pale but with lines of determination about his smooth, sensitive mouth, stood by and listened. The winter afternoon was drawing to a close, and the rays of the setting sun, streaming through the stained-glass windows, bathed the artistic interior in a glow of rich, warm color. It was a picturesque room, tastefully furnished, with Pompeiian red the dominant note. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.