The Phantom Passenger by Mansfield Scott 1927

The Phantom Passenger
Mansfield Scott
New York: Edward J. Clode
Copyright 1927
313 pages

The rear hinge is broken, the binding has breaks but all pages are present and attached.  The pages are tanned and have brown age spots and foxing. There are a few corners creased and several very small edge tears. The cover has some stains and edge wear, the spine is darkened. Fair. Hardcover.

Chapter 1:  I had sworn positively that I wouldn't go with the Hamiltons on their trip across the Atlantic; and in due time I had declined their invitation with ingenious explanations designed to serve in lieu of the truth. Yet when their boat sailed on the 7th of October I was aboard.  It came about in a way which I little anticipated. Early in the forenoon on the day of the sailing I chanced to meet Walt Harwood at Broadway and Fifty-ninth Street--big, sandy-haired, good-natured Walt, probably the best friend I have in the world. Walt Harwood was going with the Hamiltons. He knew that I had declined, and had undoubtedly surmised that the regretful excuses which I had given Mr. Wentworth Hamilton hadn't been altogether accurate as to detail, but I felt sure that even Walt had no idea of the real reason for my decision......(#0000838)