Whoso Findeth a Wife
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Le Queux William. Whoso Findeth a Wife
Chapter One. A State Secret
Chapter Two “The Nook.”
Chapter Three. A Mystery
Chapter Four. The Click of the Telegraph
Chapter Five. Lord Warnham’s Admission
Chapter Six. The Veil
Chapter Seven. Ella’s Suspicions
Chapter Eight “I Dare Not!”
Chapter Nine. The Bond of Secrecy
Chapter Ten. England’s Peril
Chapter Eleven. Beck’s Prophecy
Chapter Twelve. An Important Dispatch
Chapter Thirteen. A Statement to the Press
Chapter Fourteen. Sonia
Chapter Fifteen. Beyond Recall
Chapter Sixteen. Advice Gratis
Chapter Seventeen. A Spy’s Story
Chapter Eighteen. Some Surprises
Chapter Nineteen. A Blade of Grass
Chapter Twenty. Undercurrents of Diplomacy
Chapter Twenty One. In Kensington Gardens
Chapter Twenty Two. To Err is Human
Chapter Twenty Three. A Terrible Truth
Chapter Twenty Four. Strictly Confidential
Chapter Twenty Five. The Man of the Hour
Chapter Twenty Six. A Mission and its Sequel
Chapter Twenty Seven. Cosmopolitans
Chapter Twenty Eight. Her Imperial Highness
Chapter Twenty Nine. The Seal of Silence
Chapter Thirty. Honour among Thieves
Chapter Thirty One. Due East
Chapter Thirty Two. On the Frontier
Chapter Thirty Three. Bad Company
Chapter Thirty Four. Outcast
Chapter Thirty Five. Confession
Chapter Thirty Six. The Thrall
Chapter Thirty Seven. Conclusion
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When, a couple of hours later, we entered Mrs Laing’s garden, the first person we encountered was the man I hated, Andrew Beck, in his ill-fitting dress clothes and broad, crumpled shirt-front, with its great diamond solitaire, lounging in a wicker chair at the river’s brink, smoking, and in solitude enjoying the glorious sunset that, reflecting upon the water, transformed it into a stream of rippling gold. “The Nook,” as Mrs Laing’s house was called, was a charming old place facing the river at a little distance above Staines Bridge – long, low, completely covered with ivy and surrounded by a wide sweep of lawn that sloped down to the water’s edge, and a belt of old elms beneath the cool shade of which I had spent many delightfully lazy afternoons by the side of my well-beloved.
“Ah! Deedes,” exclaimed Beck, gaily, rising as we approached, “I was waiting for somebody to come. The ladies haven’t come down yet.”
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Presently, when Ella was again alone with me, her first question was, —
“What bad news have you received, Geoffrey?”
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