The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias
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Le Queux William. The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias
Chapter One. Which Mainly Concerns a Hunchback
Chapter Two. The Priest and the Book
Chapter Three. In which the Prior is Mysterious
Chapter Four. By the Tideless Sea
Chapter Five. Shows Something Suspicious
Chapter Six. The Opening of the Book
Chapter Seven. Forbidden Folios
Chapter Eight. Concerns a Woman’s Serfdom
Chapter Nine. Doctor Pellegrini’s Opinion
Chapter Ten. Across Europe
Chapter Eleven. The Old Lady from Paris
Chapter Twelve. The Sign of the Bear Cub
Chapter Thirteen. What the Watchers Saw
Chapter Fourteen. The Counsel of Friends
Chapter Fifteen. The Old Monk’s Secret
Chapter Sixteen. Continues the Record
Chapter Seventeen. Contains Forbidden Knowledge
Chapter Eighteen. Lady Judith Speaks
Chapter Nineteen. The Hand and the Glove
Chapter Twenty. Walter Wyman Rejoins me
Chapter Twenty One. We Make Preliminary Investigation
Chapter Twenty Two. What Happened at Crowland
Chapter Twenty Three. Tactics of the Enemy
Chapter Twenty Four. Forestalled
Chapter Twenty Five. What the Buried Chest Contained
Chapter Twenty Six. A Discovery in Harpur Street
Chapter Twenty Seven. If you Knew the Truth
Chapter Twenty Eight. The Stranger in Black
Chapter Twenty Nine. Some Explanations
Chapter Thirty. Humours of a House Party
Chapter Thirty One. Under the Gallows Knob
Chapter Thirty Two. The Major Makes a Statement
Chapter Thirty Three. Will the Sun Shine?
Chapter Thirty Four. The Red Bull of the Borgias
Chapter Thirty Five. What we Found at Threave
Chapter Thirty Six. Shows the Actual Spot at Crowland
Chapter Thirty Seven. In which I Enter the House of Mystery
Chapter Thirty Eight. The Room of the Bear Cub
Chapter Thirty Nine. Contains Lord Glenelg’s Story
Chapter Forty. By which the Book Remains open
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The prior mopped his round face again with his red handkerchief, and taking a key from his pocket fumbled at the lock of the small and old-fashioned safe, after some moments producing the precious manuscript for my inspection.
It proved to be a thick folio, bound in its original oaken boards covered with purple leather that had faded and in parts disappeared. For further protection there were added great bosses of tarnished brass, usual in fifteenth-century bindings, but the wood itself was fast decaying; the binding presented a sadly tattered and worn appearance, and the heavy volume seemed held together mainly by its great brass clasp.
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Something showed white for a single instant behind the glass, then disappeared. But not, however, before I recognised that some person was keeping secret watch upon my movements, and, further, that it was none other than the forbidding-looking little hunchback of Leghorn.
In Italy one’s suspicion is easily aroused, and certainly mine was by that inexplicable incident. I determined then and there to trust neither Graniani nor his clerical friend. Therefore, with a feeling of anger at such impudent espionage, I rose, re-entered the prior’s house, and walked up the dark passage to the study, intending to obtain the precious volume for which I had paid, and to wish my host a hurried adieu.
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