An Eye for an Eye
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Le Queux William. An Eye for an Eye
Chapter One. The Mystery Man
Chapter Two. The Penny in Paper
Chapter Three. An Appointment
Chapter Four. The Three Cards
Chapter Five. The Second Woman
Chapter Six. What I Saw in the Park
Chapter Seven. Eva Glaslyn
Chapter Eight. Some Remarkable Evidence
Chapter Nine. The Love of Long Ago
Chapter Ten. On the Silent Highway
Chapter Eleven. Beauty at the Helm
Chapter Twelve. The Deformed Man’s Statement
Chapter Thirteen. Dick Becomes Mysterious
Chapter Fourteen. This Hapless World
Chapter Fifteen. The Near Beyond
Chapter Sixteen. In the City
Chapter Seventeen. A Visit from Boyd
Chapter Eighteen “You will never Know – Never!”
Chapter Nineteen. Eva Makes a Confession
Chapter Twenty. A Night Adventure
Chapter Twenty One. Under the Leaden Seal
Chapter Twenty Two. In Defiance of the Law
Chapter Twenty Three. Her Ladyship
Chapter Twenty Four. The Truth Revealed
Chapter Twenty Five. Conclusion
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About twenty minutes elapsed before Patterson rejoined me, but expressing a fear that we might be overheard there, we went forth together and strolled along High Street, until, coming to a quiet turning which, I think, led past the workhouse, we strolled along it, and there he commenced his explanation.
“The fact is,” he said in a nervous, hushed voice, “there’s been a most extraordinary occurrence here to-night. The mystery is the strangest in all my experience, and I’ve made inquiries into one or two in my time, as you know.”
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“Perhaps,” I said. “Curious that they should have both died together in this manner.”
“They were evidently sitting here chatting before dinner, when both were either murdered, or died suddenly before assistance could reach them. She died before he did.”
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