The Grey Room

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Eden Phillpotts. The Grey Room

The Grey Room

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE HOUSE PARTY

CHAPTER II. AN EXPERIMENT

CHAPTER III. AT THE ORIEL

CHAPTER IV. "BY THE HAND OF GOD"

CHAPTER V. THE UNSEEN MOVES

CHAPTER VI. THE ORDER FROM LONDON

CHAPTER VII. THE FANATIC

CHAPTER VIII. THE LABORS OF THE FOUR

CHAPTER IX. THE NIGHT WATCH

CHAPTER X. SIGNOR VERGILIO MANNETTI

CHAPTER XI. PRINCE DJEM

CHAPTER XII. THE GOLDEN BULL

CHAPTER XIII. TWO NOTES

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Eden Phillpotts

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Then Tom May brought their thoughts back to the reason of the visit.

"Look here, governor," he said. "It's a scandal to give a champion room like this a bad name and shut it up. You've fallen into the habit, but you know it's all nonsense. Mary loves this room. I'll make you a sporting offer. Let me sleep in it to-night, and then, when I report a clean bill to-morrow, you can throw it open again and announce it is forgiven without a stain on its character. You've just said you don't believe spooks have the power to hurt anybody. Then let me turn in here."

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