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A.E.W. Mason. The House of the Arrow
The House of the Arrow
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. LETTERS OF MARK
CHAPTER 2. A CRY FOR HELP
CHAPTER 3. SERVANTS OF CHANCE
CHAPTER 4. BETTY HARLOWE
CHAPTER 5. BETTY HARLOWE ANSWERS
CHAPTER 6. JIM CHANGES HIS LODGING
CHAPTER 7. EXIT WABERSKI
CHAPTER 8. THE BOOK
CHAPTER 9. THE SECRET
CHAPTER 10. THE CLOCK UPON THE CABINET
CHAPTER 11. A NEW SUSPECT
CHAPTER 12. THE BREAKING OF THE SEALS
CHAPTER 13. SIMON HARLOWE'S TREASURE-ROOM
CHAPTER 14. AN EXPERIMENT AND A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 15. THE FINDING OF THE ARROW
CHAPTER 16. HANAUD LAUGHS
CHAPTER 17. AT JEAN CLADEL'S
CHAPTER 18. THE WHITE TABLET
CHAPTER 19. A PLAN FRUSTRATED
CHAPTER 20. A MAP AND THE NECKLACE
CHAPTER 21. THE SECRET HOUSE
CHAPTER 22. THE CORONA MACHINE
CHAPTER 23. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CLOCK
CHAPTER 24. ANN UPCOTT'S STORY
CHAPTER 25. THE NIGHT OF THE 27TH
CHAPTER 26. THE FAÇADE OF NÔTRE DAME
THE END
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A.E.W. Mason
Published by Good Press, 2021
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For a moment Hanaud was for the second time in that interview quite disconcerted. Of that Jim Frobisher could have no doubt. He sat for so long a time, his cigarette half-way to his lips, a man turned into stone. Then he laughed rather bitterly, with his eyes alertly turned on Jim.
"Do you know what I am doing, Monsieur Frobisher?" he asked. "I am putting to myself a riddle. Answer it if you can! What is the strongest passion in the world? Avarice? Love? Hatred? None of these things. It is the passion of one public official to take a great big club and hit his brother official on the back of the head. It is arranged that I shall go secretly to Dijon so that I may have some little chance of success. Good! On Saturday it is so arranged, and already on Monday my colleagues have so spread the news that Miss Harlowe can telegraph it to you on Tuesday morning. But that is kind, eh? May I please see the telegram?"
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