The Seven Conundrums-

WHEN the three strolling players in a little board theater outside of London offer their souls for a whisky-and-soda and cigarets, the flap of the tent-door opens, and in a burst of rain and of thunder and lightning, Mr. "Mephistopheles" Thompson appears, "a man with a noticeable curve at the corners of his lips, which might have meant humor or malevolence," and the first of seven "conundrums" is popped.
The still indefatigible E. Phillips Oppenheim has added another fast-moving, smoothly mo...