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George Manville Fenn. The Bag of Diamonds
The Bag of Diamonds
Table of Contents
Chapter Two
Going backwards
Chapter Three
The Doctor at home
Chapter Four
Public Opinion on Current Events
Chapter Five
A Sister’s Trial
Chapter Six
The Surgery Imp
Chapter Seven
Agony Point
Chapter Eight
The Doctor’s Guest
Chapter Nine
The Strange Accident
Chapter Ten
“Ay, marry is’t; Crowner’s Quest Law.”
Chapter Eleven
Mr. Poynter polishes his Hat
Chapter Twelve
The Dreams of a Fever
Chapter Thirteen
Janet is Haunted
Chapter Fourteen
Mark Heath in the Dark
Chapter Fifteen
A Physician Unhealed
Chapter Sixteen
Bob is Explanatory
Chapter Seventeen
A Jar Wrongly Labelled
Chapter Eighteen
Knotting up Loose Threads
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George Manville Fenn
Published by Good Press, 2019
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This over, he rose to his feet and listened, but all being still, he went down upon all fours again and trotted round the table, leaped on to a chair, leaped down again, and ran out of the room and along the dark passage towards the head of the kitchen stairs, looking in the gloom wonderfully like some large ape.
Active as he was, a descent of the dark stone stairs on all fours was beyond him; so he rose up, and reaching over, glided silently down the balustrade, to the great detriment of his buttons. But, arrived upon the mat at the bottom, he once more resumed his quadrupedal attitude, thrust his hands well into the Wellington boots, and trotted with a soft patter into a dark back kitchen, out of which came a droning noise uttered by some one at work, and apparently under the impression that it was a song.
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