The Stretton Street Affair

The Stretton Street Affair
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Le Queux William. The Stretton Street Affair

PROLOGUE. IS ABOUT MYSELF

CHAPTER THE FIRST. INTRODUCES OSWALD DE GEX

CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE SISTER’S STORY

CHAPTER THE THIRD. WHO WAS GABRIELLE ENGLEDUE?

CHAPTER THE FOURTH. FACING THE MUSIC

CHAPTER THE FIFTH. THE CITY OF THE LILY

CHAPTER THE SIXTH. ANOTHER PUZZLE

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. THE MILLIONAIRE’S APPREHENSIONS

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. LITTLE MRS. CULLERTON

CHAPTER THE NINTH. SOME PLAIN SPEAKING

CHAPTER THE TENTH. MONSIEUR SUZOR AGAIN

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. THE ABSOLUTE FACTS

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH “RED, GREEN AND GOLD!”

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. SOME INTERESTING REVELATIONS

CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. THE GATE OF THE SUN

CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. THE INTRUDER

CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. ANOTHER STRANGE DISCLOSURE

CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. WHAT THE PROFESSOR FOUND

CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. MORE ABOUT THE MYSTERY-MAN

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. THE TRACK OF DESPUJOL

CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. MADEMOISELLE JACQUELOT

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. AT THE HÔTEL LUXEMBOURG

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. GABRIELLE AT HOME

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD. THE DEATH-DRUG

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. YET ANOTHER MYSTERY

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. WHAT THE VALET KNEW

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH. MORE ABOUT MATEO SANZ

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH. A CURIOUS STORY

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH. LOVE THE CONQUEROR

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH. ANOTHER PLOT

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I had promised to call upon Charles Latimer, my bachelor uncle, a retired naval captain, a somewhat crusty old fellow who lived in Orchard Street, which runs between Oxford Street and Portman Square. I usually went there twice a week. With that intent I took a motor ’bus from Hammersmith Broadway as far as Hyde Park Corner.

As I stepped off the ’bus rain began to fall, so turning up the collar of my coat I hurried up Park Lane, at that hour half deserted.

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I suppose I must have remained in the chair into which I again sank for a further ten minutes. My head swam. My mental balance seemed to have become strangely upset by that highly pungent odour of lavender and verbena. I could even taste it upon my tongue, and somehow it seemed to paralyse all my senses save two, those of sight and reason.

I had difficulty in moving my mouth, my fingers, and my shoulders, but my sense of smell seemed to have become extremely acute. Yet my muscles seemed rigid, although my brain remained perfectly clear and unimpaired.

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