The White Lie
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Оглавление
Le Queux William. The White Lie
CHAPTER I. IS MAINLY MYSTERIOUS
CHAPTER II. CONCERNS A PRETTY STRANGER
CHAPTER III. DESCRIBES TWO INQUIRIES
CHAPTER IV. DESCRIBES A TORN CARD
CHAPTER V. SECRETS OF STATE
CHAPTER VI. THE SAFE-BREAKERS
CHAPTER VII. THE DOWNWARD PATH
CHAPTER VIII. REVEALS THE GRIM TRUTH
CHAPTER IX. IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER X. HONOUR AMONG THIEVES
CHAPTER XI. THE VOW
CHAPTER XII. THE FATE OF “THE AMERICAN.”
CHAPTER XIII. SISTERS IN SILENCE
CHAPTER XIV. JEAN LEARNS THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XV. HIS LORDSHIP’S VISITOR
CHAPTER XVI. JEAN HAS A SURPRISE
CHAPTER XVII. THE DARKENING HORIZON
CHAPTER XVIII. LORD BRACONDALE’S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XIX. THE GARDEN OF LOVE
CHAPTER XX. CROOKED CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER XXI. THE GREEN TABLE
CHAPTER XXII. DISCLOSES A SCHEME
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALLING SHADOW
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BLOW
CHAPTER XXV. TO PAY THE PRICE
CHAPTER XXVI. A CHILD’S QUESTION
CHAPTER XXVII. THE INTRUDER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CLOSED BOX
CHAPTER XXIX. DEADLY PERIL
CHAPTER XXX. THE WHITE LIE
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A short, puffy, red-faced man in grey flannels went past.
It was Sir Hubert Atherton, of Overstrand – that little place declared to be the richest village in all England – and Francis Goring, recognising him, bade a hurried farewell to his naval friend, and with a hasty word of thanks to the German, went out.
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“That is but natural, my dear lieutenant. You are English,” was the engineer’s response, and while he turned again to pull over the testing-switch and bent to examine the point of light, Noel was puzzled as to his exact meaning.
Presently Noel Barclay, shaking Herr Strantz’s hand, humorously expressed a hope that they might never find themselves enemies, and that the cable might be successfully completed and inaugurated on the morrow; strode out into the village street, and down the “Gap” to that wide expanse of golden sands where a big Post Office gang were busily at work covering up the long black cable lying in its trench.
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