The Four Faces
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Le Queux William. The Four Faces
CHAPTER I. CURIOSITY IS AROUSED
CHAPTER II. THE ANGEL FACES
CHAPTER III. A HAMPSTEAD MYSTERY
CHAPTER IV. IN FULL CRY
CHAPTER V. HUGESSON GASTRELL AT HOME
CHAPTER VI. THE HOUSE IN GRAFTON STREET
CHAPTER VII. OSBORNE'S STORY
CHAPTER VIII. MORE SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER IX. THE SNARE
CHAPTER X. NARRATES A CONFESSION
CHAPTER XI. CONCERNS MRS. STAPLETON
CHAPTER XII. THE BROAD HIGHWAY
CHAPTER XIII. THE BARON
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE MISTS
CHAPTER XV. THE MODERN VICE
CHAPTER XVI. SECRETS OF DUSKY FOWL
CHAPTER XVII. IS SUSPICIOUS
CHAPTER XVIII. CONTAINS ANOTHER SURPRISE
CHAPTER XIX "IN THE PAPERS"
CHAPTER XX. PRESTON AGAIN
CHAPTER XXI. A CHANNEL MYSTERY
CHAPTER XXII. THE THIN-FACED STRANGER
CHAPTER XXIII. RELATES A QUEER ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XXIV. IN STRANGE COMPANY
CHAPTER XXV. THE GLITTERING UNDERWORLD
CHAPTER XXVI "THAT WOMAN!"
CHAPTER XXVII. THE FOUR FACES
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FACES UNMASKED
CONCLUSION
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Hugesson Gastrell had accepted Lord Easterton's invitation to dine at the club, and the three men were seated near the fire as I entered, Easterton and Jack Osborne on one of the large settees, their visitor facing them in an arm-chair, with his back to me. I went towards them across the big room, apologizing for my unpunctuality, for I was nearly ten minutes late. To my surprise they remained silent; even Easterton did not rise, or greet me in any way. He looked strangely serious, and so did Jack, as a rule the cheeriest of mortals.
"I am dreadfully sorry for being so late," I exclaimed, thinking that my unpunctuality must have given them offence. I was about to invent some elaborate excuse to account for my "delay," when the man seated with his back to me suddenly rose, and, turning abruptly, faced me.
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Still no one came.
"We'd better call to-morrow," I suggested, when he had rung a third time with the same result.
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