Word: miscreant
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...travel exposed me to master-pieces of red tape. Only after being shunted around from Church Street to Lehman Hall, and from there back to two garages on Church Street, ore of which had to sign the release for the other, was I finally permitted to drive away the miscreant automobile for the nominal sum of $3.35. Everyone connected with this larceny assured me that the money goes entirely to the garage which towed the Ford three blocks, and the garage which kept in its back yard overnight...
...Horley, England, five circus elephants "farmed out for heavy work to keep their weight down", were poisoned with arsenic "by some miscreant." Three died...
...Inveterate Reader of mystery stories has not necessarily the instinct of either a crook or a sleuth; it is, as a rule, immaterial to him whether or not the final chapter brings with it the apprehension of the miscreant who effected the theft or murder. He is, on the other hand, a devotee of crime. He likes to see a good skull or a good safe well cracked. He enjoys the spinal titillation of secret and malign forces lurking in the darker chapters, ready to spring upon the superhero, who loses no opportunity of making himself their target...
...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
From here on the play moves rapidly. But finally Madame, with her imaginative fancles, subtle emotions, temperamental outbursts, and above all her undying love, wins back her miscreant husband, much to the anger and jealousy of the domestic widow, who pours forth a torrent of abuse on poor Madame's head and in so doing reveals her true nature...