The Wire-Tappers

The Wire-Tappers by Arthur Stringer is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: THE discharged prisoner hung back, blinking out at the strong sunlight. When the way at last seemed clear, he thrust his hands deep in his pockets, and sauntered carelessly toward Sixth avenue. At the comer, a crowd of idlers watched two men on a scaffolding, cleaning the stone of Jefferson Market w This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.