The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
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Le Queux William. The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
CHAPTER I. IN WHICH CERTAIN SUSPICIONS ARE EXCITED
CHAPTER II. THE COMING OF A STRANGER
CHAPTER III. INTRODUCES DOCTOR WEIRMARSH
CHAPTER IV. REVEALS TEMPTATION
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH ENID ORLEBAR IS PUZZLED
CHAPTER VI. BENEATH THE ELASTIC BAND
CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING THE VELVET HAND
CHAPTER VIII. PAUL LE PONTOIS
CHAPTER IX. THE LITTLE OLD FRENCHWOMAN
CHAPTER X. IF ANYONE KNEW
CHAPTER XI. CONCERNS THE PAST
CHAPTER XII. REVEALS A CURIOUS PROBLEM
CHAPTER XIII. THE MYSTERIOUS MR. MALTWOOD
CHAPTER XIV. WHAT CONFESSION WOULD MEAN
CHAPTER XV. THREE GENTLEMEN FROM PARIS
CHAPTER XVI. THE ORDERS OF HIS EXCELLENCY
CHAPTER XVII. WALTER GIVES WARNING
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ACCUSERS
CHAPTER XIX. IN WHICH A TRUTH IS HIDDEN
CHAPTER XX. IN WHICH A TRUTH IS TOLD
CHAPTER XXI. THE WIDENED BREACH
CHAPTER XXII. CONCERNING THE BELLAIRS AFFAIR
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SILENCE OF THE MAN BARKER
CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT THE DEAD MAN LEFT
CHAPTER XXV. AT THE CAFÉ DE PARIS
CHAPTER XXVI. WHICH IS "PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL"
CHAPTER XXVII. THE RESULT OF INVESTIGATION
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECRET OF THE LONELY HOUSE
CHAPTER XXIX. CONTAINS SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS
CHAPTER XXX. REVEALS A WOMAN'S LOVE
CHAPTER XXXI. IN WHICH SIR HUGH TELLS HIS STORY
CHAPTER XXXII. CONCLUSION
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A grey, sunless morning on the Firth of Tay.
Across a wide, sandy waste stretching away to the misty sea at Budden, four men were walking. Two wore uniform—one an alert, grey-haired general, sharp and brusque in manner, with many war ribbons across his tunic; the other a tall, thin-faced staff captain, who wore the tartan of the Gordon Highlanders. With them were two civilians, both in rough shooting-jackets and breeches, one about forty-five, the other a few years his junior.
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Then the order was given to cease fire. Words of command sounded, and were repeated in the rear, where ponies and men lay hidden. The guns were run back under cover, and with lightning rapidity dismounted, taken to pieces, and loaded upon the backs of the ponies, together with the leather ammunition cases—which looked like men's suit cases—and other impedimenta.
The order was given to march, and, headed by the pipers, who commenced their inspiring skirl to the beat of the drums, they moved away over the rough, broken ground, the general standing astraddle and watching it all through his monocle with critical eye, and keeping up a fire of sarcastic comment directed at the colonel.
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