The Red Widow: or, The Death-Dealers of London
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Le Queux William. The Red Widow: or, The Death-Dealers of London
CHAPTER I. CONCERNS A MAN IN WHITE
CHAPTER II. WHO IS MRS. BRAYBOURNE?
CHAPTER III. THE "GAME" – AND ITS PLAYERS
CHAPTER IV. PROGRESS OF THE PLOT
CHAPTER V. CONTAINS A NOTE OF ALARM
CHAPTER VI. THE LOCKED ROOM IN HAMMERSMITH
CHAPTER VII. WHAT HAPPENED IN BRIDGE PLACE
CHAPTER VIII. ON LOCH LOMOND
CHAPTER IX. A GENTLEMAN NAMED GREIG
CHAPTER X. MORE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
CHAPTER XI. SPREADING THE NET
CHAPTER XII. THE PERSON FROM UPSTAIRS
CHAPTER XIII. RELATES A STRANGE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XIV. ON SATURDAY NIGHT
CHAPTER XV. CARRIES THE MYSTERY FARTHER
CHAPTER XVI. BAITING THE TRAP
CHAPTER XVII "NEWS" FROM LANCASTER GATE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE COUP AND ITS CONSEQUENCE
CHAPTER XIX. WHAT HAPPENED TO GERALD
CHAPTER XX. THE ROOM OF EVIL
CHAPTER XXI. LOST DAYS
CHAPTER XXII. FROM OUT THE PAST
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CRY IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. HARD PRESSED
CHAPTER XXV. THE RECLUSE
CHAPTER XXVI "GET RID OF THE GIRL!"
CHAPTER XXVII "THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW"
CHAPTER XXVIII. AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XXIX. ON THIN ICE
CHAPTER XXX. THROUGH THE DARKNESS
CONCLUSION
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Bernard Boyne was certainly a mystery man in Hammersmith, yet nobody suspected it. In all the years he had lived in the neighbourhood his actions had never aroused a single breath of suspicion.
In pious black he passed the collection bag around to the congregation of St. George the Martyr each Sunday morning, and afterwards, with a deep bow, handed the bag to the rubicund vicar of his parish.
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"The fact, Mr. Emery, is this," the woman with the wonderful hair commenced, when he had seated himself. "My late husband was a shipbuilder at Govan. Only recently I discovered that some twenty years ago he was guilty of some sharp practice in a financial deal which, while he and his friends enriched themselves, a man named Braybourne and his wife were both ruined. Braybourne died recently, but his widow is living in London. Now knowledge of this affair has greatly upset me, for I had the greatest faith in my dear husband's honesty."
"Naturally," remarked the young lawyer. "The knowledge of such a stigma attaching to his name must grieve you."
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