The Third. Volume
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Hume Fergus. The Third. Volume
CHAPTER I. AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER II. A MYSTERIOUS COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER III. THE REVELATION OF FRANCIS HILLISTON
CHAPTER IV. WHAT OCCURRED AT HORRISTON
CHAPTER V. A STRANGE COINCIDENCE
CHAPTER VI. TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
CHAPTER VII "LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE."
CHAPTER VIII. BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION
CHAPTER IX. MRS. BEZEL
CHAPTER X. A FEW FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE CASE
CHAPTER XI. A STARTLING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XII. REVELATIONS
CHAPTER XIII. ON THE TRACK
CHAPTER XIV. THE UPPER BOHEMIA
CHAPTER XV. A POPULAR AUTHOR
CHAPTER XVI. A FALSE MOVE
CHAPTER XVII. THE HUSBAND AT KENSINGTON GORE
CHAPTER XVIII. A DUEL OF WORDS
CHAPTER XIX. TAIT BRINGS NEWS
CHAPTER XX. A PRÉCIS OF THE CASE
CHAPTER XXI. THORSTON
CHAPTER XXII. IN THE CHURCH
CHAPTER XXIII. FACT AND FICTION
CHAPTER XXIV. A NEW SUSPICION
CHAPTER XXV. THE RECLUSE
CHAPTER XXVI. AN OLD SERVANT
CHAPTER XXVII. A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XXVIII. PREPARING THE GROUND
CHAPTER XXIX. KERRY
CHAPTER XXX. MRS. BEZEL AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXI. AN EVENING AT THE VICARAGE
CHAPTER XXXII. THE DISCOVERIES OF SPENSER TAIT
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE STORY OF THE MAD GARDENER
CHAPTER XXXIV. A LETTER FROM HORRISTON
CHAPTER XXXV. THE ORIGINAL OF THE PORTRAIT
CHAPTER XXXVI. A STRANGE THING HAPPENS
CHAPTER XXXVII. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A NEW ASPECT OF THINGS
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE GARNET SCARFPIN
CHAPTER XL. FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER XLI. AN EXPLANATION
CHAPTER XLII. THE TRAGEDY OF A WOMAN'S VANITY
CHAPTER XLIII. THE LAST APPEARANCE OF FRANCIS HILLISTON
CHAPTER XLIV. THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XLV. A FEW WORDS BY SPENSER TAIT
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The Athenian Club was the most up-to-date thing of its kind in London. Although it had been established over eight years it was as new as on the day of its creation, and not only kept abreast of the times, but in many instances went ahead of them. The Athenians of old time were always crying out for something new; and their prototypes of London, following in their footsteps, formed a body of men who were ever on the look-out for novelty. Hence the name of this club, which adopted for its motto the classic cry, "Give us something new," and acted well up to the saying. The Athenian Club was the pioneer of everything.
It would take a long time to recount the vagaries for which this coterie had been responsible. If one more daring spirit than the rest invented a new thing or reinstated on old one, his fellows followed like a flock of intelligent sheep and wore the subject threadbare, till some more startling theory initiated a new movement. The opinion of the club took its color from the prevailing "fad" of the hour, and indeed many of the aforesaid "fads" were invented in its smoke room. It should have been called "The Ephemeral Club," from the rapidity with which its fanciers rose to popularity and vanished into obscurity.
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