Scarhaven Keep
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Fletcher Joseph Smith. Scarhaven Keep
CHAPTER I. WANTED AT REHEARSAL
CHAPTER II. GREY ROCK AND GREY SEA
CHAPTER III. THE MAN WHO KNEW SOMETHING
CHAPTER IV. THE ESTATE AGENT
CHAPTER V. THE GREYLE HISTORY
CHAPTER VI. THE LEADING LADY
CHAPTER VII. LEFT ON GUARD
CHAPTER VIII. RIGHT OF WAY
CHAPTER IX. HOBKIN'S HOLE
CHAPTER X. THE INVALID CURATE
CHAPTER XI. BENEATH THE BRAMBLES
CHAPTER XII. GOOD MEN AND TRUE
CHAPTER XIII. MR. DENNIE
CHAPTER XIV. BY PRIVATE TREATY
CHAPTER XV. THE CABLEGRAM FROM NEW YORK
CHAPTER XVI. IN TOUCH WITH THE MISSING
CHAPTER XVII. THE OLD PLAYBILL
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LIE ON THE TOMBSTONE
CHAPTER XIX. THE STEAM YACHT
CHAPTER XX. THE COURTEOUS CAPTAIN
CHAPTER XXI. MAROONED
CHAPTER XXII. THE OLD HAND
CHAPTER XXIII. THE YACHT COMES BACK
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
CHAPTER XXV. THE SQUIRE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE REAVER'S GLEN
CHAPTER XXVII. THE PEEL TOWER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FOOTPRINTS
CHAPTER XXIX. SCARVELL'S CUT
CHAPTER XXX. THE GREENGROCER'S CART
CHAPTER XXXI. AMBASSADRESS EXTRAORDINARY
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The three men stood for a while silently looking at each other. Copplestone, as a stranger, secretly wondered why the two managers seemed so concerned; to him a delay of half an hour in keeping an appointment did not appear to be quite as serious as they evidently considered it. But he had never met Bassett Oliver, and knew nothing of his ways; he only began to comprehend matters when Rothwell turned to Stafford with an air of decision.
"Look here!" he said. "You'd better go and make inquiry at Northborough. See if you can track him. Something must be wrong—perhaps seriously wrong. You don't quite understand, do you, Mr. Copplestone?" he went on, giving the younger man a sharp glance. "You see, we know Mr. Oliver so well—we've both been with him a good many years. He's a model of system, regularity, punctuality, and all the rest of it. In the ordinary course of events, wherever he spent yesterday, he'd have been sure to turn up at his rooms at the 'Angel' hotel last night, and he'd have walked in here this morning at half-past twelve. As he hasn't done either, why, then, something unusual has happened. Stafford, you'd better get a move on."
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"Good!" exclaimed Stafford, with a hearty sigh of relief. "I do! You know him, then?"
"I've often seen him, both at Northborough and at Norcaster," replied Mrs. Wooler. "But I never saw him here before yesterday. Oh, yes! of course I knew him as soon as he walked in, and I had a bit of chat with him before he went out, and he remarked that though he'd been coming into these parts for some years, he'd never been to Scarhaven before—usually, he said, he'd gone inland of a Sunday, amongst the hills. Oh, yes, he was here—he had lunch here."
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