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- English
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- 5.6 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
Chapter I CROWNED HEADS MEET
Chapter II ARTHUR DORWARD’S “SCOOP”
Chapter III “OURS IS A STRANGE COURTSHIP”
Chapter IV THE NIGHT TRAIN FROM VIENNA
Chapter V “VON BEHRLING HAS THE PACKET”
Chapter VI VON BEHRLING IS TEMPTED
Chapter VII “WE PLAY FOR GREAT STAKES”
Chapter VIII THE HAND OF MISFORTUNE
Chapter IX ROBBING THE DEAD
Chapter X BELLAMY IS OUTWITTED
Chapter XI VON BEHRLING’S FATE
Chapter XII BARON DE STREUSS’ PROPOSAL
Chapter XIII STEPHEN LAVERICK’S CONSCIENCE
Chapter XIV ARTHUR MORRISON’S COLLAPSE
Chapter XV LAVERICK’S PARTNER FLEES
Chapter XVI THE WAITER AT THE "BLACK POST"
Chapter XVII THE PRICE OF SILENCE
Chapter XVIII THE LONELY CHORUS GIRL
Chapter XIX MYSTERIOUS INQUIRIES
Chapter XX LAVERICK IS CROSS EXAMINED
Chapter XXI MADEMOISELLE IDIALE’S VISIT
Chapter XXII ACTIVITY OF AUSTRIAN SPIES
Chapter XXIII LAVERICK AT THE OPERA
Chapter XXIV A SUPPER PARTY AT LUIGI’S
Chapter XXV JIM SHEPHERD’S SCARE
Chapter XXVI THE DOCUMENT DISCOVERED
Chapter XXVII PENETRATING A MYSTERY
Chapter XXVIII LAVERICK’S NARROW ESCAPE
Chapter XXIX LASSEN’S TREACHERY DISCOVERED
Chapter XXX THE CONTEST FOR THE PAPERS
Chapter XXXI MISS LENEVEU’S MESSAGE
Chapter XXXII MORRISON IS DESPERATE
Chapter XXXIII LAVERICK’S ARREST
Chapter XXXIV MORRISON’S DISCLOSURE
Chapter XXXV BELLAMY’S SUCCESS
Chapter XXXVI LAVERICK ACQUITTED
Chapter XXXVII THE PLOT TEAT FAILED
Chapter XXXVIII A FAREWELL APPEARANCE
Laverick, with a single bound, was upon his assailant.
“Tell me, are they afraid of me, your friends?”
There was no doubt about her beauty
Zoe had fallen asleep in a small, uncomfortable easy-chair
Bellamy, King’s Spy, and Dorward, journalist, known to fame in every
English-speaking country, stood before the double window of their
spacious sitting-room, looking down upon the thoroughfare beneath. Both
men were laboring under a bitter sense of failure. Bellamy’s face was
dark with forebodings; Dorward was irritated and nervous. Failure was a
new thing to him—a thing which those behind the great journals which he
represented understood less, even, than he. Bellamy loved his country,
and fear was gnawing at his heart.
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