Violet Forster's Lover
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Marsh Richard. Violet Forster's Lover
CHAPTER I. The Card on the Floor
CHAPTER II. While the Groom Waited
CHAPTER III "Stop, Thief!"
CHAPTER IV. The Good Samaritan
CHAPTER V. Dreaming
CHAPTER VI. His Wife
CHAPTER VII. Among Thieves
CHAPTER VIII. The Sandwich-man
CHAPTER IX. The Drapery
CHAPTER X. The Woman Tempted Me
CHAPTER XI. In the Wood
CHAPTER XII "What Does it Mean?"
CHAPTER XIII. The Alcove
CHAPTER XIV "Who is Simmons?"
CHAPTER XV 'Twixt the Dark and Daylight
CHAPTER XVI. The Lacquered Club
CHAPTER XVII. Sleepers Awakened
CHAPTER XVIII. In Bed
CHAPTER XIX. The Two Women
CHAPTER XX. The Leather Bag
CHAPTER XXI. An Envelope
CHAPTER XXII. The Countess and Violet
CHAPTER XXIII. The Latest Story
CHAPTER XXIV. 2A Cobden Mansions
CHAPTER XXV. Julia Spurrier
CHAPTER XXVI. Happiness!
CHAPTER XXVII. A Game of Billiards
CHAPTER XXVIII. An Irregular Visitor
CHAPTER XXIX. The Visitor Remains
CHAPTER XXX. The Story of what Happened after the Easter Ball
CHAPTER XXXI. Asking Forgiveness
CHAPTER XXXII. In the Taxicab
CHAPTER XXXIII "Vi!"
CHAPTER XXXIV. Some Letters and a Telegram
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Two days before that fatal night Sydney Beaton had gone down to see his brother, Sir George Beaton, head of the family, and practically its sole representative, in his old home at Adisham, in the County of Wilts. The visit had been of the nature of a forlorn hope. Sydney wanted help, pecuniary help, as he had done more than once before. He was in a very tight place. He had piled folly on to folly, and just lately he had surmounted the pile with the biggest of the lot. If he could not get money quickly matters would go very ill with him. Money-lenders and all those sort of people were not to be persuaded; he owed them already more than they ever expected to get. Nor did he know of any friend or acquaintance who would be likely to do what he required; his credit was bad even among them. He did not think he would be able to get the money from his brother; George had told him on a previous occasion that he would never let him have another farthing; there was evidence that he meant to keep his word. Still, Sydney had to try lest worse befell.
But he failed, badly. There was something very like a quarrel. Sydney confessed, after a fashion. He warned George that if he did not get the money he wanted the family name might suffer. George, in reply, said right out what he thought of him; he made it quite clear that his opinion of his brother could hardly have been a worse one. He refused to let him have even so much as a five-pound note.
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"Vi! you mustn't tempt me."
"How do you mean, tempt you?"
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