The House Opposite: A Mystery

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Elizabeth Kent. The House Opposite: A Mystery

CHAPTER I. THROUGH MY NEIGHBOUR’S WINDOWS

CHAPTER II. I AM INVOLVED IN THE CASE

CHAPTER III. A CORONER’S INQUEST

CHAPTER IV. UNWILLING WITNESSES

CHAPTER V. MRS. ATKINS HOLDS SOMETHING BACK

CHAPTER VI. A LETTER AND ITS ANSWER

CHAPTER VII. MR. MERRITT INSTRUCTS ME

CHAPTER VIII. AN IDENTIFICATION

CHAPTER IX. I INSTRUCT MR. MERRITT

CHAPTER X. THE MISSING HAT

CHAPTER XI. MADAME ARGOT’S MAD HUSBAND

CHAPTER XII. A PROFESSIONAL VISIT OUT OF TOWN

CHAPTER XIII. MR. AND MRS. ATKINS AT HOME

CHAPTER XIV. MY HYSTERICAL PATIENT

CHAPTER XV. A SUDDEN FLIGHT

CHAPTER XVI. THAT TACTLESS DETECTIVE

CHAPTER XVII. ONE WOMAN EXONERATED

CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRUTH OF THE WHOLE MATTER

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IT seemed to me that I had only just got to sleep on my divan when I was awakened by a heavy truck lumbering by. The sun was already high in the heavens, but on consulting my watch I found that it was only ten minutes past six. Annoyed at having waked up so early I was just dozing off again when my sleepy eyes saw the side door leading to the back stairs of the Rosemere slowly open and a young man come out.

Now I do not doubt that, except for what I had seen and heard the night before, I should not have given the fellow a thought; but the house opposite had now become for me a very hotbed of mystery, and everything connected with it aroused my curiosity. So I watched the young man keenly, although he appeared to be nothing but a grocer’s or baker’s boy going on his morning rounds. But looking at him again I thought him rather old for an errand boy, for they are seldom over eighteen, while this young fellow was twenty-five at the very least. He was tall, dark, and clean-shaven, although not very recently so. He wore no collar, and had on a short, black coat over which was tied a not immaculate white apron. On his arm hung a covered basket, which, from the way he carried it, I judged to be empty, or nearly so.

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“Nothing but a hand-bag, sor.”

“And yet she stayed two nights! Do you know any reason for her staying here so long?”

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