The Opal Serpent
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Hume Fergus. The Opal Serpent
CHAPTER I. DON QUIXOTE IN LONDON
CHAPTER II. DEBORAH JUNK, DUENNA
CHAPTER III. DULCINEA OF GWYNNE STREET
CHAPTER IV. THE UNFORESEEN
CHAPTER V. TROUBLE
CHAPTER VI. A NOISE IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER VII. A TERRIBLE NIGHT
CHAPTER VIII. THE VERDICT OF THE JURY
CHAPTER IX. CASTLES IN THE AIR
CHAPTER X. A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
CHAPTER XI. A CUCKOO IN THE NEST
CHAPTER XII. THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER XIII. THE DETECTIVE'S VIEWS
CHAPTER XIV. MR. HAY'S LITTLE DINNER
CHAPTER XV. A NEW CLUE
CHAPTER XVI. Sylvia's theory
CHAPTER XVII. HURD'S INFORMATION
CHAPTER XVIII. AT CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS
CHAPTER XIX. CAPTAIN JESSOP
CHAPTER XX. PART OF THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XXI. MISS QIAN'S PARTY
CHAPTER XXII. FURTHER EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XXIII. WHAT PASH SAID
CHAPTER XXIV. MRS. KRILL AT BAY
CHAPTER XXV. A CRUEL WOMAN
CHAPTER XXVI. A FINAL EXPLANATION
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Number forty-five Gwynne Street was a second-hand bookshop, and much of the stock was almost as old as the building itself. A weather-stained board of faded blue bore in tarnished gold lettering the name of its owner, and under this were two broad windows divided by a squat door, open on week-days from eight in the morning until eight at night. Within the shop was dark and had a musty odor.
On either side of the quaint old house was a butcher's and a baker's, flaunting places of business, raw in their newness. Between the first-named establishment and the bookshop a low, narrow passage led to a small backyard and to a flight of slimy steps, down which clients who did not wish to be seen could arrive at a kind of cellar to transact business with Mr. Norman.
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"I've heard him pray," said Miss Junk, mysteriously – "yes, you may look, for there ain't no prayer in the crafty eye of him – but pray he do, and asks to be kept from danger – "
"Danger's the word, for I won't deceive you, no, not if you paid me better wages than the old man do give and he's as near as the paring of an inion. So I ses to Bart, if there's danger and trouble and Old Baileys about, the sooner Miss Sylvia have some dear man to give her a decent name and pertect her the more happy old Deborah will be. So I looked and looked for what you might call a fairy prince as I've heard tell of in pantomimes, and when you comes she loses her heart to you. So I ses, find out, Bart, what he is, and – "
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