The Essential Wilkie Collins Collection

The Essential Wilkie Collins Collection
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Wilkie Collins<br><br>After Dark<br>Antonina<br>Armadale<br>Basil<br>The Black Robe<br>Blind Love<br>The Dead Alive<br>A Fair Penitent<br>The Fallen Leaves<br>The Frozen Deep<br>The Guilty River<br>The Haunted Hotel<br>Heart and Science<br>Hide and Seek<br>I Say No<br>Jezebel<br>The Law and the Lady<br>The Legacy of Cain<br>Little Novels<br>Man and Wife<br>Miss or Mrs.?<br>The Moonstone<br>My Lady&#39;s Money<br>The New Magdalen<br>No Name<br>No Thoroughfare<br>Poor Miss Finch<br>The Queen of Hearts<br>Rambles Beyond Railways<br>A Rogue&#39;s Life<br>THE TWO DESTINIES<br>The Woman in White

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The Essential Wilkie Collins Collection

By Wilkie Collins

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"Before we say a word about the money," I began, "let me put a case, Mr. Davager. The pull you have on Mr. Francis Gatliffe is, that you can hinder his marriage on Wednesday. Now, suppose I have got a magistrate's warrant to apprehend you in my pocket? Suppose I have a constable to execute it in the next room? Suppose I bring you up to-morrow--the day before the marriage--charge you only generally with an attempt to extort money, and apply for a day's remand to complete the case? Suppose, as a suspicious stranger, you can't get bail in this town? Suppose--"

"Stop a bit," says Mr. Davager. "Suppose I should not be the greenest fool that ever stood in shoes? Suppose I should not carry the letter about me? Suppose I should have given a certain envelope to a certain friend of mine in a certain place in this town? Suppose the letter should be inside that envelope, directed to old Gatliffe, side by side with a copy of the letter directed to the editor of the local paper? Suppose my friend should be instructed to open the envelope, and take the letters to their right address, if I don't appear to claim them from him this evening? In short, my dear sir, suppose you were born yesterday, and suppose I wasn't?" says Mr. Davager, and winks at me again.

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