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Майн Рид. The Finger of Fate
The Finger of Fate
Table of Contents
"A Romance"
Chapter One
The Half-Brothers
Chapter Two
Doggy Dick
Chapter Three
The Archery Fête
Chapter Four
A Coquette
Chapter Five
Two Strings to the Bow
Chapter Six
The Gathering Cloud
Chapter Seven
Plotters for Fortune
Chapter Eight
Father and Son
Chapter Nine
The Checkmate
Chapter Ten
The Bait Taken
Chapter Eleven
Awaiting the Proposal
Chapter Twelve
Self-Exiled
Chapter Thirteen
London Thugs
Chapter Fourteen
Turned Artist
Chapter Fifteen
A Sketcher Surprised
Chapter Sixteen
Empty Pockets
Chapter Seventeen
An Unlucky Recognition
Chapter Eighteen
A Sympathiser
Chapter Nineteen
On the March
Chapter Twenty
Writing to Dictation
Chapter Twenty One
Under the Cedar
Chapter Twenty Two
A Queer Traveller
Chapter Twenty Three
Dissimulation
Chapter Twenty Four
A Strange Visitor
Chapter Twenty Five
An Uncourteous Reception
Chapter Twenty Six
An Unceremonious Dismissal
Chapter Twenty Seven
Brigand Domestic Life
Chapter Twenty Eight
Unpleasant Information
Chapter Twenty Nine
Painful Conjecturing
Chapter Thirty
Brigandage and its Cause
Chapter Thirty One
The Torreanis
Chapter Thirty Two
Captain Count Guardioli
Chapter Thirty Three
Improved Prison Fare
End of Volume One. Chapter Thirty Four
Popetta
Chapter Thirty Five
Writing under Difficulties
Chapter Thirty Six
A Short Trial
Chapter Thirty Seven
A Tough Amputation
Chapter Thirty Eight
The Family Solicitor
Chapter Thirty Nine
The Call Book
Chapter Forty
A Furniture Picture
Chapter Forty One
A Terrible Threat
Chapter Forty Two
An Unknown Correspondent
Chapter Forty Three
Cutting a Way Skyward
Chapter Forty Four
Again in Prison
Chapter Forty Five
Consequential Swagger
Chapter Forty Six
Alone with Lucetta Torreani
Chapter Forty Seven
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Chapter Forty Eight
Four to One
Chapter Forty Nine
Evviva Ella Republica!
Chapter Fifty
The Abduction
Chapter Fifty One
On the Trail
Chapter Fifty Two
A Suffocating Drink
Chapter Fifty Three
Courtship with a Captive
Chapter Fifty Four
A Terrible Tableau
Chapter Fifty Five
The Roman Republic
Chapter Fifty Six
Number Nine, Strada Volturno
Chapter Fifty Seven
A Fruitless Search
Chapter Fifty Eight
The New Squire of Beechwood
Chapter Fifty Nine
In the Campo
Chapter Sixty
Pleasant Hospitality
Chapter Sixty One
An Unknown Host
Chapter Sixty Two
A Lost Legatee
Chapter Sixty Three
“Something to his Advantage.”
Chapter Sixty Four
A Hundred Thousand Pounds
Chapter Sixty Five
The Finger of Fate
Chapter Sixty Six
What Became of Them
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Mayne Reid
A Romance
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The submissiveness with which he had received the castigation administered by Henry Harding seemed afterwards to have been a source of regret to him: for in future encounters of a similar kind he proved himself a desperate and dangerous assailant—so dangerous that, in a conflict with one of General Harding’s watchers, occurring about a year from that time, he inflicted a severe wound upon the man, resulting in his death. He saved his own neck from the halter by making his escape out of the country; and though traced to Boulogne, and thence to Marseilles—in the company of some jockeys who were taking English horses to Italy—he finally eluded justice by hiding himself in some corner of that classic land, then covered by a network of petty states; most of them not only obstructive to justice, but corrupt in their administration.
