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E. Phillips Oppenheim. The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV
A QUESTION OF OBLIGATION
CHAPTER V
A MORNING WALK
CHAPTER VI
PAULINE MARRABEL
CHAPTER VII
AN UNWELCOME VISITOR
CHAPTER VIII
AN INSTANCE OF OCCULTISM
CHAPTER IX
A SENTIMENTAL TALK
CHAPTER X
THE SCENE CHANGES
CHAPTER XI
A BUSY EVENING
CHAPTER XII
A CALL ON LADY MARRABEL
CHAPTER XIII
LADY MARY’S DILEMMA
CHAPTER XIV
PETTY WORRIES
CHAPTER XV
ROCHESTER IS INDIGNANT
CHAPTER XVI
PLAIN SPEAKING
CHAPTER XVII
THE GREAT NAUDHEIM
CHAPTER XVIII
ROCHESTER’S ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER XIX
TROUBLE BREWING
CHAPTER XX
FIRST BLOOD
CHAPTER XXI
AFRAID!
CHAPTER XXII
SATON REASSERTS HIMSELF
CHAPTER XXIII
AN UNPLEASANT ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER XXIV
LOIS IS OBEDIENT
CHAPTER XXV
A LAST WARNING
CHAPTER XXVI
THE DUCHESS’S DINNER PARTY
CHAPTER XXVII
THE ANSWER TO A RIDDLE
CHAPTER XXVIII
SPOKEN FROM THE HEART
CHAPTER XXIX
THE COURAGE OF DESPERATION
CHAPTER XXX
A SURPRISING REQUEST
CHAPTER XXXI
BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY
CHAPTER XXXII
AT THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE
CHAPTER XXXIII
“YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN ME!”
CHAPTER XXXIV
A WOMAN’S TONGUE
CHAPTER XXXV
ON LOIS’ BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE CHARLATAN UNMASKED
EPILOGUE
THE MAN
THE END
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The sound of footsteps coming along the path which they had just quitted, attracted his attention momentarily. He turned round. Lois, too, hesitated.
“I beg your pardon, sir,” the newcomer said, “but can you tell me whereabouts in this neighborhood I can find a house called Blackbird’s Nest? A Mr. Bertrand Saton lives there, I believe.”
