The Eye of Osiris
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Richard Austin Freeman. The Eye of Osiris
CHAPTER I. THE VANISHING MAN
CHAPTER II. THE EAVESDROPPER
CHAPTER III. JOHN THORNDYKE
CHAPTER IV. LEGAL COMPLICATIONS AND A JACKAL
CHAPTER V. THE WATERCRESS-BED
CHAPTER VI. SIDELIGHTS
CHAPTER VII. JOHN BELLINGHAM'S WILL
CHAPTER VIII. A MUSEUM IDYLL
CHAPTER IX. THE SPHINX OF LINCOLN'S INN
CHAPTER X. THE NEW ALLIANCE
CHAPTER XI. THE EVIDENCE REVIEWED
CHAPTER XII. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIII. THE CORONER'S QUEST
CHAPTER XIV. WHICH CARRIES THE READER INTO THE PROBATE COURT
CHAPTER XV. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XVI. O ARTEMIDORUS, FAREWELL!
CHAPTER XVII. THE ACCUSING FINGER
CHAPTER XVIII. JOHN BELLINGHAM
CHAPTER XIX. A STRANGE SYMPOSIUM
CHAPTER XX. THE END OF THE CASE
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It is one of the canons of correct conduct, scrupulously adhered to (when convenient) by all well-bred persons, that an acquaintance should be initiated by a proper introduction. To this salutary rule, which I have disregarded to the extent of an entire chapter, I now hasten to conform; and the more so inasmuch as nearly two years have passed since my first informal appearance.
Permit me then, to introduce Paul Berkeley, M.B., etc., recently—very recently—qualified, faultlessly attired in the professional frock-coat and tall hat, and, at the moment of introduction, navigating with anxious care a perilous strait between a row of well-filled coal-sacks and a colossal tray piled high with kidney potatoes.
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"And audibly," his daughter added. "Do you know that Doctor Berkeley was reduced to the necessity of stopping his ears?" She glanced at me as she spoke, with something like a twinkle in her solemn gray eyes.
"Did I shout?" Mr. Bellingham asked, not very contritely, I thought, though he added: "I'm very sorry, my dear; but it won't happen again. I think we've seen the last of that good gentleman."
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