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The Seven Secrets
BY
WILLIAM LE QUEUX
_Author of "The Gamblers," "The Under-Secretary," "Whoso findeth a Wife," "Of Royal Blood," etc._
_Second Edition_
London: HUTCHINSON & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW 1903
A. C. FOWLER, PRINTER, MOORFIELDS, LONDON.
WILLIAM LE QUEUX'S NOVELS.
"As a recounter of stories of mingled mystery and adventure, Mr.William Le Queux is certainly among the best living writers."--_TheAthenaeum._
"It is interesting that Queen Alexandra is a great reader of novels ofmystery and adventure, and that she is one of Mr. Le Queux's mostardent admirers. Long ago, when his 'Zoraida' was issued, she gave anorder to a well-known Piccadilly bookseller for all Mr. Le Queux'sbooks, past and future, and an early copy of each of that writer'sbooks reaches her."--_The Queen._
"The name of William Le Queux is well known to novel-readers as thatof one who can weave the most wonderful mysteries and elaborate themost thrilling plots that are to be met with in the fiction of to-day.His books are read with the avidity of intense curiosity, for thestring of events described are of the kind that demand attention untilthe end is reached and everything made clear."--_Literary World._
"Mr. William Le Queux's name is favourably known to all readers ofsensational fiction. He elaborates the most wonderful plots, and holdshis reader breathless to the end, for it is only quite at the end thatlight is allowed to break through the entanglement of circumstance, orthe perplexities brought about by the shock of temperament."--_DailyNews._
_Crown 8vo, 6s._
THE UNDER-SECRETARY. Third Edition.
THE GAMBLERS. Second Edition.
OF ROYAL BLOOD. Third Edition.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. INTRODUCES AMBLER JEVONS 9
II. "A VERY UGLY SECRET" 15
III. THE COURTENAYS 20
IV. A NIGHT CALL 27
V. DISCLOSES A MYSTERY 33
VI. IN WHICH I MAKE A DISCOVERY 43
VII. THE MAN SHORT AND HIS STORY 54
VIII. AMBLER JEVONS IS INQUISITIVE 65
IX. SHADOWS 76
X. WHICH PUZZLES THE DOCTORS 87
XI. CONCERNS MY PRIVATE AFFAIRS 98
XII. I RECEIVE A VISITOR 109
XIII. MY LOVE 119
XIV. IS DISTINCTLY CURIOUS 128
XV. I AM CALLED FOR CONSULTATION 139
XVI. REVEALS AN ASTOUNDING FACT 150
XVII. DISCUSSES SEVERAL MATTERS 162
XVIII. WORDS OF THE DEAD 173
XIX. JEVONS GROWS MYSTERIOUS 183
XX. MY NEW PATIENT 194
XXII. A MESSAGE 215
XXIII. THE MYSTERY OF MARY 226
XXIV. ETHELWYNN IS SILENT 236
XXV. FORMS A BEWILDERING ENIGMA 249
XXVI. AMBLER JEVONS IS BUSY 256
XXVII. MR. LANE'S ROMANCE 274
XXVIII. "POOR MRS. COURTENAY!" 281
XXIX. THE POLICE ARE AT FAULT 290
XXX. SIR BERNARD'S DECISION 298
XXXI. CONTAINS THE PLAIN TRUTH 306
THE SEVEN SECRETS.