The House of Whispers

The House of Whispers
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Le Queux William. The House of Whispers

CHAPTER I. THE LAIRD OF GLENCARDINE

CHAPTER II. FROM OUT THE NIGHT

CHAPTER III. SEALS OF DESTINY

CHAPTER IV. SOMETHING CONCERNING JAMES FLOCKART

CHAPTER V. THE MURIES OF CONNACHAN

CHAPTER VI. CONCERNS GABRIELLE'S SECRET

CHAPTER VII. CONTAINS CURIOUS CONFIDENCES

CHAPTER VIII. CASTING THE BAIT

CHAPTER IX. REVEALS A MYSTERIOUS BUSINESS

CHAPTER X. DECLARES A WOMAN'S LOVE

CHAPTER XI. CONCERNS THE WHISPERS

CHAPTER XII. EXPLAINS SOME CURIOUS FACTS

CHAPTER XIII. WHAT FLOCKART FORESAW

CHAPTER XIV. CONCERNS THE CURSE OF THE CARDINAL

CHAPTER XV. FOLLOWS FLOCKART'S FORTUNES

CHAPTER XVI. SHOWS A GIRL'S BONDAGE

CHAPTER XVII. DESCRIBES A FRENCHMAN'S VISIT

CHAPTER XVIII. REVEALS THE SPY

CHAPTER XIX. SHOWS GABRIELLE DEFIANT

CHAPTER XX. TELLS OF FLOCKART'S TRIUMPH

CHAPTER XXI. THROUGH THE MISTS

CHAPTER XXII. BY THE MEDITERRANEAN

CHAPTER XXIII. WHICH SHOWS A SHABBY FOREIGNER

CHAPTER XXIV "WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK"

CHAPTER XXV. SHOWS GABRIELLE IN EXILE

CHAPTER XXVI. THE VELVET PAW

CHAPTER XXVII. BETRAYS THE BOND

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WHISPERS AGAIN

CHAPTER XXIX. CONTAINS A FURTHER MYSTERY

CHAPTER XXX. REVEALS SOMETHING TO HAMILTON

CHAPTER XXXI. DESCRIBES A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE

CHAPTER XXXII. OUTSIDE THE WINDOW

CHAPTER XXXIII. IS ABOUT THE MAISON LÉNARD

CHAPTER XXXIV. SURPRISES MR. FLOCKART

CHAPTER XXXV. DISCLOSES A SECRET

CHAPTER XXXVI. IN WHICH GABRIELLE TELLS A STRANGE STORY

CHAPTER XXXVII. INCREASES THE INTEREST

CHAPTER XXXVIII "THAT MAN'S VOICE!"

CHAPTER XXXIX. CONTAINS THE CONCLUSION

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There are few of the Perthshire castles that more plainly declare their feudal origin and exhibit traces of obsolete power than does the great gaunt pile of ruins known as Glencardine. Its situation is both picturesque and imposing, and the stern aspect of the two square baronial towers which face the south, perched on a sheer precipice that descends to the Ruthven Water deep below, shows that the castle was once the residence of a predatory chief in the days before its association with the great Montrose.

Two miles from the long, straggling village of Auchterarder, in the centre of a fine, well-wooded, well-kept estate, the great ruined castle stands a silent monument of warlike days long since forgotten. There, within those walls, now overgrown with ivy and weeds, and where big trees grow in the centre of what was once the great paved courtyard, Montrose schemed and plotted, and, according to tradition, kept certain of his enemies in the dungeons below.

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"Yes," he replied. "That dear old fellow never forgets his old friend. Never a seal finds its way into the collection at Cambridge but he first sends it to me for examination before it is catalogued. He knows what pleasure it is to me to decipher them and make out their history—almost, alas! the only pleasure left to me, except you, my darling."

"Professor Moyes adopts your opinion always, dad. He knows, as every other antiquary knows, that you are the greatest living authority on the subject which you have made a lifetime study—that of the bronze seals of the Middle Ages."

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