The Third Eye

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Ethel Lina White. The Third Eye

The Third Eye

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PART ONE: THERE—

I. — ROUNDABOUT

II. — THE OMEN

III. — THE FIRST DAY

IV. — INTRODUCTION TO MISS BAT

V. — FIRST WARNING

VI. — BEHIND THE LIGHT

VII. — THE TABLE TALKS

VIII. — A LONG SHOT

IX. — WHO LAUGHS LAST

X. — THE REWARD OF LOYALTY

XI. — THE LAST DAY

XII. — WELCOME HOME

XIII. — THE BOMBSHELL

XIV. — THINKING MAKES IT

PART TWO:—AND BACK

I. — THE START

II. — COFFEE FOR TWO

III. — TAKING CHANCES

IV. — THE MUSIC GOES ROUND

V. — THE FOREST

VI. — PAROCHIAL CALL

VII. — SIR—OR MADAM?

VIII. — THE TUDOR TEA-HOUSE

IX. — THE WELL

X. — A TRUNK-CALL

XI. — "MY HOUSE"

XII. — THE FOOTSTEPS OF MURDER

XIII. — THE LAST CHANCE

XIV. — MOULDY BONES

XV. — A PAIR OF SPECTACLES

XVI. — THE VILLAGE OF OLD WOMEN

XVII. — REUNION

THE END

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Ethel Lina White

Published by Good Press, 2022

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"But you know what rumour is. All sorts of ridiculous stories got about. So Mrs. Nash felt that if she applied to an agency after all the best mistresses were snapped up she'd be landed with some odd-come-short. She preferred to get a temporary coach, and look around. Then a Miss Yaxley-Moore, who has an administration post in the Abbey School, chanced to mention it in a letter to her half-sister in Wiltshire. She spoke about it casually when we were calling on her. I saw my chance—and leaped for it...Really, I think I ought to charge both sides a commission."

"But is Mrs. Nash prepared to consider Caroline, when she is such a roundabout acquisition?" queried the Professor, who was fishing for an opening.

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