The Seven Secrets
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Le Queux William. The Seven Secrets
THE SEVEN SECRETS
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCES AMBLER JEVONS
CHAPTER II “A VERY UGLY SECRET.”
CHAPTER III. THE COURTENAYS
CHAPTER IV. A NIGHT CALL
CHAPTER V. DISCLOSES A MYSTERY
CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH I MAKE A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER VII. THE MAN SHORT AND HIS STORY
CHAPTER VIII. AMBLER JEVONS IS INQUISITIVE
CHAPTER IX. SHADOWS
CHAPTER X. WHICH PUZZLES THE DOCTORS
CHAPTER XI. CONCERNS MY PRIVATE AFFAIRS
CHAPTER XII. I RECEIVE A VISITOR
CHAPTER XIII. MY LOVE
CHAPTER XIV. IS DISTINCTLY CURIOUS
CHAPTER XV. I AM CALLED FOR CONSULTATION
CHAPTER XVI. REVEALS AN ASTOUNDING FACT
CHAPTER XVII. DISCUSSES SEVERAL MATTERS
CHAPTER XVIII. WORDS OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER XIX. JEVONS GROWS MYSTERIOUS
CHAPTER XX. MY NEW PATIENT
CHAPTER XXI. WOMAN’S WILES
CHAPTER XXII. A MESSAGE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MYSTERY OF MARY
CHAPTER XXIV. ETHELWYNN IS SILENT
CHAPTER XXV. FORMS A BEWILDERING ENIGMA
CHAPTER XXVI. AMBLER JEVONS IS BUSY
CHAPTER XXVII. MR. LANE’S ROMANCE
CHAPTER XXVIII “POOR MRS. COURTENAY.”
CHAPTER XXIX. THE POLICE ARE AT FAULT
CHAPTER XXX. SIR BERNARD’S DECISION
CHAPTER XXXI. CONTAINS THE PLAIN TRUTH
Отрывок из книги
“Ah! You don’t take the matter at all seriously!” I observed, a trifle annoyed.
“Why should I?” asked my friend, Ambler Jevons, with a deep pull at his well-coloured briar. “What you’ve told me shows quite plainly that you have in the first place viewed one little circumstance with suspicion, then brooded over it until it has become magnified and now occupies your whole mind. Take my advice, old chap, and think nothing more about it. Why should you make yourself miserable for no earthly reason? You’re a rising man – hard up like most of us – but under old Eyton’s wing you’ve got a brilliant future before you. Unlike myself, a mere nobody, struggling against the tide of adversity, you’re already a long way up the medical ladder. If you climb straight you’ll end with an appointment of Physician-in-Ordinary and a knighthood thrown in as makeweight. Old Macalister used to prophesy it, you remember, when we were up at Edinburgh. Therefore, I can’t, for the life of me, discover any cause why you should allow yourself to have these touches of the blues – unless it’s liver, or some other internal organ about which you know a lot more than I do. Why, man, you’ve got the whole world before you, and as for Ethelwynn – ”
.....
As the man had described, the sheet was stained with blood. But there was not much, and I was some moments before I discovered the wound. It was just beneath the heart, cleanly cut, and about three-quarters of an inch long, evidently inflicted by some sharp instrument. He had no doubt been struck in his sleep, and with such precision that he had died without being able to raise the alarm.
The murderer, whoever he was, had carried the weapon away.
.....