Farjeon Benjamin Leopold. The Betrayal of John Fordham
CHAPTER I. JOHN FORDHAM'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
PART II
CHAPTER XXVII. RELATED BY PAUL GODFREY, PRIVATE DETECTIVE
PART III
CHAPTER XXVIII. JACK SKINNER MAKES A STATEMENT
CHAPTER XXIX
PART IV
CHAPTER XXX. PAUL GODFREY, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, CONTINUES HISNARRATIVE
CHAPTER XXXI. PAUL GODFREY, DETECTIVE, CONTINUES HIS NARRATIVE
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Were it not necessary I would make no mention of my child-life, but this record would be incomplete were I to pass it over in silence. All that I can do is to dwell upon it as briefly as possible.
My mother died a few weeks after I was born; my father waited but twelve months before he married again, and in less than two years his second wife was a widow. Thus I lost both my parents at too early an age to retain the slightest recollection of them. By his second marriage my father had one child, a boy; my half-brother's name was Louis, and by him and my stepmother I was regarded with aversion – by her, indeed, with a much stronger feeling, for when I was old enough to reason out things for myself I learned that she hated me.
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I did not see Louis before I left the house, and on that day I commenced a new life.
"You're not half a bad sort, John, but you're a bit soft. You want hardening, my boy, and you'll get it."
