Jim Maitland
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Herman Cyril McNeile. Jim Maitland
Jim Maitland
Table of Contents
I. Raymond Blair--Drunkard
II. The Killing of Baron Stockmar
III. A Game of Bluff
IV. Colette
V. The Fight at Bull Mine Creek
VI. Pete Cornish's Revenge
VII. The Madman at Corn Reef Lighthouse
VIII. The Seven Missionaries
IX. The Rottenness of Lady Hounslow
X. The Pool of the Sacred Crocodile
XI. An Experiment in Electricity
XII. Molly's Aunt at Angmering
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Herman Cyril McNeile
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Nothing on God's earth is quite as sure as that," repeated MacAndrew grimly, as he flung open the door and we stepped inside.
It came with almost as much of a shock to me as it must have to Jim Maitland. For since that day at the club I had not seen Blair again, and, if Blair drunk was a pitiful sight, Blair sober was a thousand times worse. Almost, in fact, did I fail to recognise him. He was crawling about the floor like a dog and barking, and sometimes the spectators kicked him as he passed, and sometimes they threw him a copper which he clawed at wolfishly.
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