Another Man's Shoes Author:Victor Bridges Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II My nerves are under pretty good control, but I must confess that I jumped a little at this unexpected interruption. Wheeling round, I found myself ... more »face to face with a tall, broad-shouldered man in evening dress, which was half concealed by a long fawn-coloured overcoat. For a moment his features seemed strangely familiar, and I stared at him, wondering where I had seen them last. Then suddenly the truth hit me fair and square. "Good Lord!" I said, "are you a looking-glass?" Except for his clothes, the man was the exact image of myself. He smiled ? a curious smile that ended with his lips, and had no effect at all on the cold, steady blue eyes that were taking in every detail of my appearance. " A most remarkable likeness," he observed quietly. " I never thought I was so good-looking." I bowed. " And I never realised how well-dressed I was," I returned in the same half-mocking tone. It was his turn to start, though the motion was almost imperceptible. "Even our voices!" he muttered. "Who was the fool who said that miracles don't happen ? " I shook my head. " The likeness," I said, " appears to extend to our ignorance." There was a short silence, during which we still looked each other up and down with the same frank interest. Then he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a slim, gold card-case. " My name," he said, " is Stuart Northcote. You may have heard of it." He held out a card. I don't think I showed my surprise, though goodness knows I felt it. Like most people in London, I had certainly heard of Stuart Northcote. Indeed, I could hardly have avoided doing so, considering that the Society papers had been full of little else but his doings and his wealth ever since he appeared mysteriously from nowhere at the beginning of the ...« less