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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace. The Green Rust
The Green Rust
Table of Contents
The Passing of John Millinborn
The Drunken Mr. Beale
Punsonby's Discharge an Employee
The Letters that were not There
The Man with the Big Head
Mr. Scobbs of Red Horse Valley
Plain Words from Mr. Beale
The Crime of the Grand Alliance
A Crime against the World
A Fruitless Search
The House near Staines
Introducing Parson Homo
At Deans Folly
Mr. Beale Suggests Marriage
The good Herr Stardt
The Pawn Ticket
The Jew of Cracow
Bridgers Breaks Loose
Oliva is Willing
The Marriage
Beale Sees White
Hilda Glaum Leads the Way
At the Doctor's Flat
The Green Rust Factory
The Last Man at the Bench
The Secret of the Green Rust
A Scheme to Starve the World
The Coming of Dr. Milson
The Lost Code
The Watch
A Cornchandler's Bill
The End of Van Heerden
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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
Published by Good Press, 2020
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He wiped his face with a pocket-handkerchief and walked to the window, staring out at the serene loveliness of the scene. Over the weald a great aeroplane droned to the sea. The green downs were dappled white with grazing flocks, and beneath the windows the ordered beds blazed and flamed with flowers, crimson and gold and white.
As he stood there the man he had met in the plantation came to his mind and he was half-inclined to speak to the doctor of the incident. But he was in no mood for the description and the speculation which would follow. Restlessly he paced into the bedroom. The sick man had not moved and again the lawyer returned. He thought of the girl, that girl whose name and relationship with John Millinborn he alone knew. What use would she make of the millions which, all unknown to her, she would soon inherit? What——
