The Deaves Affair

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Footner Hulbert. The Deaves Affair

The Deaves Affair

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

A PENNY CHANGE

CHAPTER II

A RICH MAN'S HOUSE

CHAPTER III

SNOOPING

CHAPTER IV

THE NEW LODGER

CHAPTER V

THE HAPPY LITTLE FAMILY

CHAPTER VI

THE LITTLE FELLOW IN GREY

CHAPTER VII

PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP

CHAPTER VIII

EVAN IS RE-ENGAGED

CHAPTER IX

THE COMPACT IS SMASHED

CHAPTER X

MAUD'S INTEREST

CHAPTER XI

THE STEAMBOAT ERNESTINA

CHAPTER XII

EVAN LOSES A ROUND

CHAPTER XIII

A LITTLE DETECTIVE WORK

CHAPTER XIV

NUMBER 11 VAN DORN STREET

CHAPTER XV

THE CLUB HOUSE

CHAPTER XVI

BACK TO EARTH

CHAPTER XVII

THE ERNESTINA AGAIN

CHAPTER XVIII

THE ACCIDENT

CHAPTER XIX

FOUR VISITS FROM GEORGE DEAVES

CHAPTER XX

THE BEGINNING OF THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XXI

LATER THAT NIGHT

CHAPTER XXII

TOWARDS MORNING

CHAPTER XXIII

SIMEON DEAVES TURNS PHILANTHROPIST

CHAPTER XXIV

CONCLUSION

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Hulbert Footner

Published by Good Press, 2021

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He led the way up-stairs, across another and a loftier hall with an imitation groined ceiling, and into a large room at the back of the house, which by virtue of a case of morocco bound books, clearly not often disturbed, was the library. The young man flung himself into a chair behind an immense flat-topped desk and waved his hand to Evan with an air that seemed to say: "Now tell me the worst!" Between the two, Evan's sympathies were with the father.

He was not invited to sit. He told his story briefly, making out the best case that he could for the old man. The latter was not insensible to the favour. His little eyes twinkled. The young man became gloomier and gloomier as the story progressed.

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