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New York in fiction . st corner of Second Streetthe large red brick house where Ernest 137 NEW YORK IN FICTION Neuman went to live under an assumedname after his release from the TomhsPrison, where he had been on trial for themurder of his betrothed, as described inHenryHarlands^i-s-/if Was Written. TheKarons of the same writers Mrs. Peixadalived between Sixth and Seventh streets,and across the way was the pawnshopof Bernard Peixada, a brick house,although the bricks were concealed bya coat of dark grey stucco that blotcheshere and there had made almost pawnbroking establishment was
New York in fiction . st corner of Second Streetthe large red brick house where Ernest 137 NEW YORK IN FICTION Neuman went to live under an assumedname after his release from the TomhsPrison, where he had been on trial for themurder of his betrothed, as described inHenryHarlands^i-s-/if Was Written. TheKarons of the same writers Mrs. Peixadalived between Sixth and Seventh streets,and across the way was the pawnshopof Bernard Peixada, a brick house,although the bricks were concealed bya coat of dark grey stucco that blotcheshere and there had made almost pawnbroking establishment was onthe ground floor, and the broad windowsin front were protected, like those ofa jail, by heavy iron bars. In thesewindows were musical instruments, house-hold ornaments, kitchen utensils, firearms,tarnished uniforms, womens fadedgewgaws and finery, and behind these,darkness, mystery, and gloom. The threeupper stories were hermetically sealedand wore a sinister and ill-omenedaspect. There is, however, no structure 138. i^/r / #-nrT/ NEW YORK IN FICTION in the neighbourhood even remotely sug-gestive of this shop. At the corner of Eighteenth Street andFifth Avenue was the house of UncleLarry Laughton (Brander MatthewssTJie Last Meeting), \vheve the Full ScoreClub met the evening that Frederick Oly-phant was shanghaied by the manwith the Black Heart. The original ofLaurence Laughton was Laurence Hut-ton, and the house in question was thehome of Professor Matthewss scene of the dinner in The LastMeeting was the library, to which wastransferred, for the purposes of thestorj^, Laurence Huttons famous collec-tion of death masks. Crossing from here to Gramercy Park,we find at No. 2 the home of Mr. GriffordPinchot, used by F. Hopkinson Smith asthe residence of Mrs. Leroy in CaJeh was here that Calebs wife found a ref-uge after her flight with Lally. The houseat the west corner of Lexington Avenue 141 NEW YORK IN FICTION and the Park was probably the home ofRoyal Weldo
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