The Story of Charles Strange. Vol. 3 (of 3)

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Henry Wood. The Story of Charles Strange. Vol. 3 (of 3)

CHAPTER I. ON THE WATCH

CHAPTER II. TOM HERIOT

CHAPTER III. AN EVENING VISITOR

CHAPTER IV. RESTITUTION

CHAPTER V. CONFESSION

CHAPTER VI. DANGER

CHAPTER VII. WITH MR. JONES

CHAPTER VIII. AN ACCIDENT

CHAPTER IX. LAST DAYS

CHAPTER X. LAST WORDS

CHAPTER XI. DOWN AT MARSHDALE

CHAPTER XII. IN THE EAST WING

CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION

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I FOUND my way straight enough the next night to the little green with its trees and shrubs. Tom was there, and was humming one of our boyhood's songs taught us by Leah:

He was still dressed as a sailor, but the pilot-coat was buttoned up high and tight about his throat, and the round glazed hat was worn upon the front of his head instead of the back of it.

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The sun had set when I reached Hastings, and Miss Brightman's house. Miss Brightman, who seemed to grow less strong day by day, which I was grieved to hear, was in her room lying down. Annabel sat at the front drawing-room window in the twilight. She started up at my entrance, full of surprise and apprehension.

"Oh, Charles! Has anything happened? Is mamma worse?"

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