Skin O' My Tooth

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Baroness Orczy. Skin O' My Tooth

Skin O' My Tooth

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The Murder In Saltashe Woods

The Case Of The Sicilian Prince

The Duffield Peerage Case

The Kazan Pearls

The Case Of Major Gibson

The Inverted Five

The Turquoise Stud

Overwhelming Evidence

The Case Of Mrs. Norris

The Murton-Braby Murder

A Shot In The Night

The Hungarian Landowner

THE END

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Baroness Orczy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“Old Whadcoat persisted in his accusations, and very high words ensued between us. I believe I did threaten to knock him down if he did not shut up. Anyway, he told me that he would go over the next afternoon to Saltashe Park to expose me before my brother and M. de Kerhoet, who was staying there on a visit to England for the shooting.

“I left him then, meaning to go myself that same evening to Saltashe Park and see my brother about it; but on my journey home, certain curious suspicions with regard to old Whadcoat himself crept up in my mind, and then and there I determined to try and see him again and to talk the matter over more dispassionately with him, in what I thought would be his own interests. My intention was to make, of course, my brother acquainted with the whole matter at once, but to leave M. de Kerhoet out of the question for the present; so I wired to Whadcoat in the morning to make the assignation which has proved such a terrible mistake.”

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