An Artist in Crime

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Ottolengui Rodrigues. An Artist in Crime

CHAPTER I. A GENTLEMAN THINKS HE CAN COMMIT A CRIME AND ESCAPE DETECTION

CHAPTER II. A DARING AND SUCCESSFUL TRAIN ROBBERY

CHAPTER III. MR. BARNES DISCOVERS AN ARTISTIC MURDER

CHAPTER IV. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND

CHAPTER V. THE SEVENTH BUTTON

CHAPTER VI. MR. BARNES'S TRAP

CHAPTER VII. MR. RANDOLPH HAS A FIGHT WITH HIS CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER VIII. LUCETTE

CHAPTER IX. THE DIARY OF A DETECTIVE

CHAPTER X. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

CHAPTER XI. MR. BARNES RECEIVES SEVERAL LETTERS

CHAPTER XII. THE HISTORY OF THE RUBY

CHAPTER XIII. MR. BARNES GOES SOUTH

CHAPTER XIV. AN INTERRUPTED WEDDING

CHAPTER XV. MR. MITCHEL EXPLAINS A FEW THINGS

CHAPTER XVI. MR. BARNES DISCOVERS A VALUABLE CLUE

CHAPTER XVII. A NEW YEAR'S DINNER PARTY

CHAPTER XVIII. MR. BARNES'S NARRATIVE

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The train was just approaching Stamford, and from the window in the section which he occupied Mr. Barnes was watching the sun glowing red over the hilltops, when he heard approaching him the guard who had assisted him to jump aboard the night before. The man was making mysterious gestures, from which Mr. Barnes understood that he was wanted. He arose and followed the porter to the smoking-room.

"I think you called yourself Barnes," said the man, "as you jumped aboard last night."

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"Married; but my husband has been dead for several years."

"Now about these jewels. How did it happen that you were travelling with so valuable a lot of jewelry?"

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