The Silent House
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Hume Fergus. The Silent House
CHAPTER I. THE TENANT OF THE SILENT HOUSE
CHAPTER II. SHADOWS ON THE BLIND
CHAPTER III. AN UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATION
CHAPTER IV. MRS. KEBBY'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER V. THE TALK OF THE TOWN
CHAPTER VI. MRS. VRAIN'S STORY
CHAPTER VII. THE ASSURANCE MONEY
CHAPTER VIII. DIANA VRAIN
CHAPTER IX. A MARRIAGE THAT WAS A FAILURE
CHAPTER X. THE PARTI-COLOURED RIBBON
CHAPTER XI. FURTHER DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER XII. THE VEIL AND ITS OWNER
CHAPTER XIII. GOSSIP
CHAPTER XIV. THE HOUSE IN JERSEY STREET
CHAPTER XV. RHODA AND THE CLOAK
CHAPTER XVI. MRS. VRAIN AT BAY
CHAPTER XVII. A DENIAL
CHAPTER XVIII. WHO BOUGHT THE CLOAK?
CHAPTER XIX. THE DEFENCE OF COUNT FERRUCI
CHAPTER XX. A NEW DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XXI. TWO MONTHS PASS
CHAPTER XXII. AT BERWIN MANOR
CHAPTER XXIII. A STARTLING THEORY
CHAPTER XXIV. LUCIAN IS SURPRISED
CHAPTER XXV. A DARK PLOT
CHAPTER XXVI. THE OTHER MAN'S WIFE
CHAPTER XXVII. A CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE NAME OF THE ASSASSIN
CHAPTER XXIX. LINK SETS A TRAP
CHAPTER XXX. WHO FELL INTO THE TRAP?
CHAPTER XXXI. A STRANGE CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXII. THE CONFESSION (Continued)
CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT RHODA HAD TO SAY
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE END OF IT ALL
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The landlady of Denzil was a rather uncommon specimen of the class. She inclined to plumpness, was lively in the extreme, wore very fashionable garments of the brightest colours, and – although somewhat elderly – still cherished a hope that some young man would elevate her to the rank of a matron.
At present, Miss Julia Greeb was an unwedded damsel of forty summers, who, with the aid of art, was making desperate but ineffectual efforts to detain the youth which was slipping from her. She pinched her waist, dyed her hair, powdered her face, and affected juvenile dress of the white frock and blue sash kind. In the distance she looked a girlish twenty; close at hand various artifices aided her to pass for thirty; and it was only in the solitude of her own room that her real age was apparent. Never did woman wage a more resolute fight with Time than did Miss Greeb.
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"Just because I don't," replied the landlady, with feminine logic. "And if you think of having anything to do with this mystery, Mr. Denzil, I beg of you not to, else you may come to something as is too terrible to consider – that you may."
"Such as – "
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