And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your

host John Haggadorn. One of my very favorite authors is Robert Barr. He really

tells a great story. I only wish he'd written more short stories. But this one I haven't

done before and it's a good one. It's called the exposure of Lord Stansford.

Again by Robert Barr. And here's the story.

The large mention of Louis Hekel,

millionaire and dealer in gold mines,

was illuminated from top to bottom.

Carriages were arriving and departing and

guests were hurrying up the carpeted stair after passing under the canopy that

stretched in the doorway to the edge of the street. A crowd of onlookers stood on the pavement watching the arrival of

ladies so charmingly tired. Lord Stansford came alone and a handsome and he walked quickly

across the bit of carpet stretched to the roadway and then more leisurely up the broad stair.

He was an athletic young fellow of 26 or thereabout.

The moment he entered the large reception room, his eyes wandered,

searchingly, over the gallon company, apparently looking for someone whom he could not find.

He passed into a further room and threw that into a third and there his searching gaze met the

stare of Billy Hekel. Hekel was a young man of about the same age as Lord

Stanford and he also was seemingly on the lookout for someone among the arriving guests.

The moment he saw Lord Stansford a slight frown gathered upon his brow and he moved among the throng toward the spot where the other stood.

Stanford saw him coming and did not seem to be so pleased as might have been expected,

but he made no motion to avoid the young man who accosted him without salutation.

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