A Modern Wizard
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Ottolengui Rodrigues. A Modern Wizard
BOOK SECOND
CHAPTER I. LAWYER AND CLIENT
CHAPTER II. JACK BARNES INVESTIGATES
CHAPTER III. A WIZARD'S TRICK
CHAPTER IV. DR. MEDJORA SURRENDERS
CHAPTER V. FOR THE PROSECUTION
CHAPTER VI. DAMAGING TESTIMONY
CHAPTER VII. THE PROSECUTION RESTS
CHAPTER VIII. FOR THE DEFENCE
CHAPTER IX. THE DEFENCE CLOSES
CHAPTER X. MR. BLISS MAKES HIS SPEECH
CHAPTER XI. TERMINATION OF THE GREAT CASE
BOOK SECOND
CHAPTER I. ONE NIGHT
CHAPTER II. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER III. SELLING A NEW ENGLAND FARM
CHAPTER IV. AN OMINOUS WELCOME
CHAPTER V. A FACE FROM THE PAST
CHAPTER VI. AGNES DUDLEY
CHAPTER VII. A WIZARD'S TEACHING
CHAPTER VIII. THE FAITHFUL DOG
CHAPTER IX. A WIZARD'S KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER X. THE BETROTHAL
CHAPTER XI. THE GENESIS OF LOVE
CHAPTER XII. THE MARQUIS OF LOSSY
CHAPTER XIII. THE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIV. SANATOXINE
Отрывок из книги
Early one morning, in the spring of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two young lawyers were seated in their private office. The firm name, painted in gilt letters upon the glass of the door, was DUDLEY & BLISS. Mortimer Dudley was the senior member, though not over thirty years old. Robert Bliss was two years younger.
Mr. Dudley was sorting some papers and deftly tying them into bundles with red tape. Why lawyers will persist in using tape of a sanguine color is an unsolvable mystery to me, unless it may be that they are loath to disturb the many old adages in which the significant couplet of words appears. However that may be, Mr. Dudley paused in his occupation, attracted by an exclamation from his partner, who had been reading a morning paper.
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"You commanded me to remember nothing!"
"True! I commanded! But do you remember?"
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