The Yellow Streak

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Of all the luxuries of which Hartley Parrish's sudden rise to wealth gave him possession Bude his butler was the acquisition in which he took the greatest delight and pride. Bude was a large and comfortable- looking person triple-chinned like an archdeacon bald-headed except for a respectable and saving edging of dark down clean-shaven benign of countenance with a bold nose which to the psychologist bespoke both ambition and inborn cleverness. He had a thin tight mouth which in itself alone was a symbol of discreet reticence the hall-mark of the trusted family retainer. Bude had spent his life in the service of the English aristocracy. The Earl of Tipperary Major-General Lord Bannister the Dowager Marchioness of Wiltshire and Sir Herbert Marcobrunner Bart. had in turn watched his gradual progress from pantry-boy to butler. Bude was a man whose maxim had been the French saying Je prends mon bien où je le trouve.