The Girl in His House

About the Author- Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1932) was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.Also known occasionally as Harold McGrath, he was born in Syracuse, New York. As a young man, he worked as a reporter and columnist on theSyracuse Herald newspaper until the late 1890s when he published his first novel, a romance titled Arms and the Woman. -Wikipedia Excerpt:CHAPTER I ARMITAGE had come thirteen thousand miles--across deserts, through jungles, over snow-clad peaks--as fast as camels and trains and ships could carry him, driven by an all-compelling desire Sixty-odd days ago he had been in the amber-mines in the Hukainng Valley, where Upper Burma ends and western China begins; and here he was, riding up old Broadway--a Broadway that twinkled and glittered and glared with the same old colored clock lights. Men were queer animals.