The Green Rust

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Edgar Wallace. The Green Rust

The Green Rust

Table of Contents

I. — THE PASSING OF JOHN MILLINBORN

II. — THE DRUNKEN MR. BEALE

III. — PUNSONBY'S DISCHARGE AN EMPLOYEE

IV. — THE LETTERS THAT WERE NOT THERE

V. — THE MAN WITH THE BIG HEAD

VI. — MR. SCOBBS OF RED HORSE VALLEY

VII. — PLAIN WORDS FROM MR. BEALE

VIII. — THE CRIME OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE

IX. — A CRIME AGAINST THE WORLD

X. — A FRUITLESS SEARCH

XI. — THE HOUSE NEAR STAINES

XII. — INTRODUCING PARSON HOMO

XIII. — AT DEANS FOLLY

XIV. — MR. BEALE SUGGESTS MARRIAGE

XV. — THE GOOD HERR STARDT

XVI. — THE PAWN TICKET

XVII. — THE JEW OF CRACOW

XVIII. — BRIDGERS BREAKS LOOSE

XIX. — OLIVA IS WILLING

XX. — THE MARRIAGE

XXI. — BEALE SEES WHITE

XXII. — HILDA GLAUM LEADS THE WAY

XXIII. — AT THE DOCTOR'S FLAT

XXIV. — THE GREEN RUST FACTORY

XXV. — THE LAST MAN AT THE BENCH

XXVI. — THE SECRET OF THE GREEN RUST

XXVII. — A SCHEME TO STARVE THE WORLD

XXVIII. — THE COMING OF DR. MILSOM

XXIX. — THE LOST CODE

XXX. — THE WATCH

XXXI. — A CORN CHANDLER'S BILL

XXXII. THE END OF VAN HEERDEN

THE END

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Edgar Wallace

Published by Good Press, 2021

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He wiped his face with a pocket-handkerchief and walked to the window, staring out at the serene loveliness of the scene. Over the weald a great aeroplane droned to the sea. The green downs were dappled white with grazing flocks, and beneath the windows the ordered beds blazed and flamed with flowers, crimson and gold and white.

As he stood there the man he had met in the plantation came to his mind and he was half-inclined to speak to the doctor of the incident. But he was in no mood for the description and the speculation which would follow. Restlessly he paced into the bedroom. The sick man had not moved and again the lawyer returned. He thought of the girl, that girl whose name and relationship with John Millinborn he alone knew. What use would she make of the millions which, all unknown to her, she would soon inherit? What...

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