Final Proof: or, The Value of Evidence

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Ottolengui Rodrigues. Final Proof: or, The Value of Evidence

PREFATORY

I. THE PHŒNIX OF CRIME

II. THE MISSING LINK

III. THE NAMELESS MAN

IV. THE MONTEZUMA EMERALD

V. A SINGULAR ABDUCTION

VI. THE AZTEC OPAL

VII. THE DUPLICATE HARLEQUIN

VIII. THE PEARLS OF ISIS

IX. A PROMISSORY NOTE

X. A NOVEL FORGERY

XI. A FROSTY MORNING.1

XII. A SHADOW OF PROOF

Отрывок из книги

Mr. Mitchel was still at breakfast one morning, when the card of Mr. Barnes was brought to him by his man Williams.

"Show Mr. Barnes in here," said he. "I imagine that he must be in a hurry to see me, else he would not call so early."

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"Who knows? We're all honest, till we're caught."

"Dead easy. If you can't see that, you're as soft as the old man."

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