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William Le Queux. The Hunchback of Westminster
The Hunchback of Westminster
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter One
How Don José Baited His Trap
Chapter Two
Lot Eighty-Two
Chapter Three
I Determine to Go Forward
Chapter Four
The House at Hampstead
Chapter Five
Introduces the Hunchback
Chapter Six
The Sacred Secret
Chapter Seven
In Stanton Street
Chapter Eight
Some Grave Suspicions
Chapter Nine
The Hunchback Tries a New Ruse
Chapter Ten
The Lady from Mexico
Chapter Eleven
What Happened to us
Chapter Twelve
What the Papers Said
Chapter Thirteen
The Two Brothers
Chapter Fourteen
Which Contains a Fresh Development
Chapter Fifteen
In Search of the Secret
Chapter Sixteen
Above the Clouds
Chapter Seventeen
The Mysteries of St. Bruno’s
Chapter Eighteen
London Again
Chapter Nineteen
Reveals the Secret of the Order
Chapter Twenty
More Mystery
Chapter Twenty One
The Use of the Image
Chapter Twenty Two
The Jesuits’ Cipher
Chapter Twenty Three
In which Further Facts are Deciphered
Chapter Twenty Four
Reveals a Scheme
Chapter Twenty Five
Held in Bondage
Chapter Twenty Six
The Words of Father Ganton
Chapter Twenty Seven
At the Present Moment
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William Le Queux
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Almost instantly the crowd appeared to rise up en masse and to roll right over us, but as I stumbled backward, headlong from my foothold, I was astonished to see a man, got up to resemble me exactly in every feature, scramble on to my place on the upturned case, and in a voice that seemed my very own, to cry out to the auctioneer: “That, sir, is the most I can do. I now retire.” And as a cheer broke out from the crowd he too skipped down instantly out of sight.
“Ah, this is indeed treachery,” I told myself. And, gripping my teeth hard, I let my fists go; next, with a mighty effort, I sprang forward to roll the surging human mob out of my path—to make my voice heard, to regain my old position, to take command of the situation again, for I heard the bids still mounting higher, higher, higher.
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