Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series

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Henry Wood. Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series

A MYSTERY

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SANDSTONE TORR

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CHANDLER AND CHANDLER

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VERENA FONTAINE’S REBELLION

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A CURIOUS EXPERIENCE

ROGER BEVERE

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KETIRA THE GIPSY

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THE CURATE OF ST. MATTHEW’S

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MRS. CRAMP’S TENANT

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“Look here, Johnny Ludlow,” said Darbyshire to me—Darbyshire being, as you may chance to remember, our doctor at Timberdale—“you seem good at telling of unaccountable disappearances: why don’t you tell of that disappearance which took place here?”

I had chanced to look in upon him one evening when he was taking rest in his chimney-corner, in the old red-cushioned chair, after his day’s work was over, smoking his churchwarden pipe in his slippers and reading the story of “Dorothy Grape.”

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Tod’s face presented a picture. Believing, as he did still, that it was Brook in the gig, the idea suggested by me—that St. George was concealing Brook at his house out of good-fellowship—grew stronger and stronger. But he considered that, as it had come to this, St. George ought to say so.

“Where’s the use of your continuing to deny it, St. George?” he asked. “You had Brook there, and you know you had.”

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