The Hunchback of Westminster
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Le Queux William. The Hunchback of Westminster
Preface
Chapter One. How Don José Baited His Trap
Chapter Two. Lot Eighty-Two
Chapter Three. I Determine to Go Forward
Chapter Four. The House at Hampstead
Chapter Five. Introduces the Hunchback
Chapter Six. The Sacred Secret
Chapter Seven. In Stanton Street
Chapter Eight. Some Grave Suspicions
Chapter Nine. The Hunchback Tries a New Ruse
Chapter Ten. The Lady from Mexico
Chapter Eleven. What Happened to us
Chapter Twelve. What the Papers Said
Chapter Thirteen. The Two Brothers
Chapter Fourteen. Which Contains a Fresh Development
Chapter Fifteen. In Search of the Secret
Chapter Sixteen. Above the Clouds
Chapter Seventeen. The Mysteries of St. Bruno’s
Chapter Eighteen. London Again
Chapter Nineteen. Reveals the Secret of the Order
Chapter Twenty. More Mystery
Chapter Twenty One. The Use of the Image
Chapter Twenty Two. The Jesuits’ Cipher
Chapter Twenty Three. In which Further Facts are Deciphered
Chapter Twenty Four. Reveals a Scheme
Chapter Twenty Five. Held in Bondage
Chapter Twenty Six. The Words of Father Ganton
Chapter Twenty Seven. At the Present Moment
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It was in the second year of my practice as a private detective that young José Casteno came to my office in Stanton Street, WC, and entrusted me with that strange and terrible mission in regard to which I have really hesitated, in all sincerity, for some days before I could actually nerve myself to take the public into my confidence.
Up to that time, I remember, my big brass plate, with the legend “Mr Hugh Glynn, Secret Investigator,” had only succeeded in drawing a very average and ordinary amount of business. True, I had had several profitable cases in which wives wanted to know what happened to their husbands when they didn’t come home at the usual hours, and employers were anxious to discover certain leakages through which had disappeared a percentage of their cash; but for the most part my work had been shockingly humdrum, and already I had begun to regret the whim that had prompted me, after reading certain latter-day romances, to throw up my career as a barrister in Gray’s Inn to emulate the romancer’s heroes in real life.
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“Oh, that’s absurd,” I cried, although my own brain reeled at the magnitude of the commission, “we must not lose heart at the start. After all, an auction is an auction; money has money’s power the world over. Pay enough – and I feel sure you are bound to triumph.”
“So it would seem. But then you don’t know the secret foes whom you will have against you. Their power – their daring – their resources are marvellous.”
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