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E. Phillips Oppenheim. The Avenger
The Avenger
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
CHAPTER II. THE HORROR OF THE HANSOM
CHAPTER III. DISCUSSING THE CRIME
CHAPTER IV. UNDER A CLOUD
CHAPTER V. ON THE TELEPHONE
CHAPTER VI. ONE THOUSAND POUNDS' REWARD
CHAPTER VII. THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VIII. THE BARONESS INTERVENES
CHAPTER IX. A BOX AT THE ALHAMBRA
CHAPTER X. OUTCAST
CHAPTER XI. FALSE SENTIMENT
CHAPTER XII. TIDINGS FROM THE CAPE
CHAPTER XIII. SEARCHING THE CHAMBERS
CHAPTER XIV. THE DEAD MAN'S BROTHER
CHAPTER XV. THE LAWYER'S SUGGESTION
CHAPTER XVI. A DINNER IN THE STRAND
CHAPTER XVII. A CONFESSION OF LOVE
CHAPTER XVIII. AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE
CHAPTER XIX. DESPERATE WOOING
CHAPTER XX. STABBED THROUGH THE HEART
CHAPTER XXI. THE FLIGHT OF LOUISE
CHAPTER XXII. THE CHÂTEAU OF ÉTARPE
CHAPTER XXIII. A PASSIONATE PILGRIM
CHAPTER XXIV. AN INVITATION TO DINNER
CHAPTER XXV. THE MAN IN THE YELLOW BOOTS
CHAPTER XXVI. MADAME DE MELBAIN
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SPY
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SCENE IN THE AVENUE
CHAPTER XXIX. A SUBSTANTIAL GHOST
CHAPTER XXX. THE QUEEN OF MEXONIA
CHAPTER XXXI. RETURNED FROM THE TOMB
CHAPTER XXXII. AT THE HÔTEL SPLENDIDE
CHAPTER XXXIII. A HAND IN THE GAME
CHAPTER XXXIV. AN ILL-ASSORTED COUPLE
CHAPTER XXXV. HIS WIFE
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE MURDERED MAN'S EFFECTS
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE WIDOW'S ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER XXXVIII. INEFFECTUAL WOOING
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE COLONEL'S MISSION
CHAPTER XL. BLACKMAIL
CHAPTER XLI. THE COLONEL SPEAKS
CHAPTER XLII. LOVE REMAINS
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"A little short of change," he remarked cheerfully. "Yes! all right, I'll take them."
He marched out, swinging a paper bag between his fingers, travelled third class to Balham, and sat for a couple of hours with the invalid whom he had come to see, a lonely Italian musician, to whom his coming meant more than all the medicine his doctor could prescribe. He talked to him glowingly of the success of his recent concert (more than a score of the tickets sold had been paid for secretly by the Colonel himself and his friends), prophesied great things for the future, and laughed away all the poor fellow's fears as to his condition. There were tears in his eyes as he walked to the station, for he had visited too many sick-beds to have much faith in his own cheerful words, and all the way back to London he was engaged in thinking out the best means of getting the musician sent back to his own country, Arrived at Charing Cross, he looked longingly towards the club, and ruefully at the contents of his pocket. Then with a sigh he turned into a little restaurant and dined for eighteen-pence.
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