House of Torment

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Thorne Guy. House of Torment

CHAPTER I. IN THE QUEEN'S CLOSET; THE FOUR FACES

CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF SHAME; THE LADDER OF GLORY

CHAPTER III. THE MEETING WITH JOHN HULL AT CHELMSFORD

CHAPTER IV. PART TAKEN IN AFFAIRS BY THE HALF TESTOON

CHAPTER V. THE FINDING OF ELIZABETH

CHAPTER VI. A KING AND A VICTIM. TWO GRIM MEN

CHAPTER VII. HEY HO! AND A RUMBELOW!

CHAPTER VIII "WHY, WHO BUT YOU, JOHNNIE!"

CHAPTER IX "MISERICORDIA ET JUSTITIA" (The ironic motto of the Spanish Inquisition)

CHAPTER X. THE SILENT MEN IN BLACK

CHAPTER XI. IN THE BOX

CHAPTER XII "TENDIMUS IN LATIUM"

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It was ten o'clock in the evening. The thunderstorm of the morning had long since passed away. The night was cool and still. There was no moon, but the sky above London was powdered with stars.

The Palace of the Tower was ablaze with lights. The King and Queen had supped in state at eight, and now a masque was in progress, held in the glorious hall which Henry III painted with the story of Antiochus.

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Then, in that strange perfumed room, the two oddly assorted people looked at each other straightly for a moment.

Neither spoke.

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