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William Le Queux. The Lost Million
The Lost Million
Table of Contents
"The Lost Million"
Chapter One
Describes a Man and his Secret
Chapter Two
Contains Several Surprises
Chapter Three
What Mr Arnold Left Behind
Chapter Four
The Man with the Red Cravat
Chapter Five
The Sign of the Gloves
Chapter Six
The Quick and the Dead
Chapter Seven
Dawnay Makes Confession
Chapter Eight
The Story of the Cylinder
Chapter Nine
Reveals Guy’s Suspicions
Chapter Ten
The Evil of the Ten Plagues
Chapter Eleven
A Sensation in the County
Chapter Twelve
The Cry in the Night
Chapter Thirteen
One Point is Made Clear
Chapter Fourteen
Contains Another Suggestion
Chapter Fifteen
Contains some Fresh Facts
Chapter Sixteen
The Sign of the Hand
Chapter Seventeen
A Further Problem
Chapter Eighteen
I Make a Discovery
Chapter Nineteen
Falling Shadows
Chapter Twenty
The Man with the Crimson Button
Chapter Twenty One
More Mystery
Chapter Twenty Two
The Secret of Harvey Shaw
Chapter Twenty Three
“A Foreigner.”
Chapter Twenty Four
A Woman’s Word
Chapter Twenty Five
In the Night
Chapter Twenty Six
Contains an Ominous Message
Chapter Twenty Seven
In the Balance
Chapter Twenty Eight
Another Revelation
Chapter Twenty Nine
Discloses Shaw’s Secret
Chapter Thirty
The Third of November
Chapter Thirty One
The Truth Concerning Arnold
Chapter Thirty Two
A Heart’s Secret
Chapter Thirty Three
Plot and Counter-Plot
Chapter Thirty Four
What the Cylinder Contained
Chapter Thirty Five
Conclusion
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William Le Queux
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It was fortunate, perhaps, that the letter had not been burned, for it had, at least, placed me in possession of some curious facts which must otherwise have been hidden.
During the next three days I was greatly occupied by my own affairs, which had been neglected by my year’s absence at the Antipodes. Yet time after time I felt the keenest anxiety as to what could be contained in the dead man’s letter of instruction, and in that corroded cylinder of bronze.
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