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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