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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