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A. E. W. Mason. The House in Lordship Lane
The House in Lordship Lane
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. MR. RICARDO IN BRITTANY
Chapter 2. MEERSCHAUM
Chapter 3. MORDAUNT WRITES A LETTER
Chapter 4 “AGAMEMNON’S” BATH
Chapter 5. DANIEL HORBURY
Chapter 6. A WAKEFUL NIGHT
Chapter 7. THE LITTLE AFFAIR THREATENS TO BECOME THE. BIG AFFAIR
Chapter 8. WHITE BARN: THE LOCKED DOOR
Chapter 9. THE UNSPOKEN WORD
Chapter 10. OLIVIA
Chapter 11. THE BLIND MAN’S DOG
Chapter 12. BIG BUSINESS AND SWITCHBACK BUSINESS
Chapter 13. FEARS, DOUBTS, CURIOSITY
Chapter 14. A MEETING IS ARRANGED
Chapter 15. SEPTIMUS READS A BOOK
Chapter 16. HANAUD SMOKES A CIGAR—OR DOES HE?
Chapter 17. THE TORN CARD
Chapter 18. THE HOLLY HEDGE
Chapter 19. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING O. AND NOT D
Chapter 20. MORDAUNT READS A SIGNAL
Chapter 21. THE HOUSE WITH THE TAMARISKS
Chapter 22. MORDAUNT MAKES A BRILLIANT SUGGESTION
Chapter 23. HANAUD RETURNS AND ANOTHER
Chapter 24. AN UNLIKELY MEETING ON THE FAIRMILE
Chapter 25. AT ARKWRIGHT’S FARM
Chapter 26. TWO OF THE LITTLE ACCIDENTS
Chapter 27. SHATTERING QUESTIONS
Chapter 28. HANAUD BORROWS ROLLS-ROYCE NO. 2
Chapter 29. THE LETTER TO SEPTIMUS
Chapter 30. STRAWS IN THE WIND
Chapter 31. THE GRIM WORD
Chapter 32. COUNTERPLOTS
Chapter 33. GEORGE RETURNS
Chapter 34. THE LAST
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A. E. W. Mason
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Men who sail in little boats are accustomed to see in the dark of the night and bad weather light on land, where there is no land, and to hear voices from the sea, where no men are drowning—so accustomed that they do not speak of them lest they should be thought to talk foolishly. So now Mordaunt and his crew looked each to the other, hesitating whether they should seem to have heard. But the cry reached them again, weaker, yet nearer, and just over the port bow.
The mate shouted “Hold on!” and cutting a life-buoy loose from the main rigging, hurled it out. The ketch was lying now, head in to the wind, with its sails flapping. Hamlin pulled up out of its slots the panel of bulwark which opened the port gangway and, flinging himself on his face, leaned over the side. The mate and the steward joined him, one upon his knees, the other with a boathook in his hands. From his position at the wheel Mordaunt could see nothing of what was happening, but something or someone was being lifted on board.
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