Phillips Oppenheim’s most intriguing stories. “I am getting plain,” she said, with a little shudder. It will take at least three weeks. . The atmosphere was 46 strained and deathly quiet at the dining room table. Over these boards the two arms of a guide-post serve to direct the wayfarer—on the right hand to the neighbouring villages of Neasdon and Kingsbury, and on the left to the Edgeware Road and the healthy heights of Hampstead.