The Crime and the Criminal
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Marsh Richard. The Crime and the Criminal
BOOK I. – THE CRIME
CHAPTER I. THE OPEN DOOR
CHAPTER II. THE MAN WITH THE SILK HANDKERCHIEF
CHAPTER III. THE NAME ON THE SCRAP OF PAPER
CHAPTER IV. BLACKMAIL
CHAPTER V. THE FACE IN THE DARKNESS
CHAPTER VI. A CONFESSION
CHAPTER VII. A VISITOR
CHAPTER VIII. MORE THAN HIS MATCH
CHAPTER IX. FOR THE SECOND TIME
BOOK II. – THE CLUB
CHAPTER X. THE HONOUR OF THE CLUB
CHAPTER XI. WHAT MR. TENNANT HAD WRITTEN
CHAPTER XII. SIR HASELTON JARDINE
CHAPTER XIII. AN AFTERNOON CALL
CHAPTER XIV. SELLING BOOMJOPFS
CHAPTER XV. THE CLUB
CHAPTER XVI. DRAWING THE LOT
CHAPTER XVII. A LITTLE GAME
CHAPTER XVIII. DAMON AND PYTHIAS: A MODERN INSTANCE
CHAPTER XIX. THE PROMISE
CHAPTER XX. THE NEWS FROM TOWN
BOOK III. – THE WOMAN
CHAPTER XXI. THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT
CHAPTER XXII. LOUISE O'DONNEL'S FATHER
CHAPTER XXIII. MR. TOWNSEND COMES TO TEA
CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT MRS. CARRUTH SAW
CHAPTER XXV. MR. TOWNSEND'S DOUBLE
CHAPTER XXVI. ANNOUNCED!
CHAPTER XXVII. MR. TOWNSEND IS MADE TO UNDERSTAND
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PRISONER COMES INTO COURT
CHAPTER XXIX. THE TRIAL BEGINS
CHAPTER XXX. MR. TAUNTON'S EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XXXI. THE CASE FOR THE CROWN CONCLUDES
CHAPTER XXXII. MRS. CARRUTH REMOVES HER VEIL
BOOK IV-THE CRIMINAL
CHAPTER XXXIII. MR. TENNANT SPEAKS
CHAPTER XXXIV. MR. HOLMAN AT HOME
CHAPTER XXXV. THE WOMAN OF THE PORTRAIT
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE VARIOUS MOODS OF A GENTLEMAN OF FASHION
CHAPTER XXXVII "CALL ME DORA."
CHAPTER XXXVIII. ON THE THRESHOLD
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE LAST MEETING OF THE CLUB
CHAPTER XL. MR. TOWNSEND REACHES HOME
CHAPTER XLI. TAKING LEAVE
CHAPTER XLII. HAND IN HAND
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It was a fine day, for November. We drove over to Bramber-Jack Cooper and his wife, Baxendale, and I. When we got back to Regency Square it was pretty late. I was to go back by the 8.40. When we had dined I had to make quite a rush to catch the train. Jack and George both came up to see me off. As the Pullman carriages all seemed full, I got into the compartment of an ordinary first-class carriage.
"You'll be better in there," said Jack. "You'll have it to yourself."
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A creepy, crawly feeling went all over me. This came of not having told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, directly the accident had happened. Already I was suspected of the worst. And by such a fellow! Already, to a certain extent, I was in his power.
I did not give him the five pounds he asked. I did not make quite such an idiot of myself as that. But I gave him much more than his ancient rag was worth. He rattled the coins, gold coins, together in the palms of his hands; he chuckled at the sound of them; he called out to the cabman, "Stop!" Standing on the pavement, he took off his hat to me with a sweeping flourish, saying, with a laugh-
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