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The New Tenant By: Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) |
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BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM AUTHOR OF "THE YELLOW HOUSE," "TO WIN THE LOVE HE SOUGHT," "A DAUGHTER
OF ASTREA," ETC.
DONALD W. NEWTON
156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
C. H. DOSCHER & CO. THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK
CONTENTS
I. FALCON'S NEST II. THE MURDER NEAR THE FALCON'S NEST III. MR. BERNARD BROWN IV. AN EVIL END TO AN EVIL LIFE V. THE INNER ROOM AT THE FALCON'S NEST VI. A TERRIBLE ENEMY VII. HELEN THURWELL'S SUSPICIONS VIII. DID YOU KILL SIR GEOFFREY KYNASTON? IX. MR. BROWN DINES AT THE COURT X. THE TRAGEDY OF RACHEL KYNASTON XI. LEVY & SON, PRIVATE AGENTS XII. A JEWEL OF A SON XIII. A STRANGE MEETING XIV. HELEN THURWELL ASKS A DIRECT QUESTION XV. A LITERARY CELEBRITY XVI. A SNUB FOR A BARONET XVII. BERNARD MADDISON AND HELEN THURWELL XVIII. A CHEQUE FOR £1,000 XIX. AN UNPLEASANT DISCOVERY FOR BERNARD BROWN XX. GOD! THAT I MAY DIE! XXI. SIR ALLAN BEAUMERVILLE HAS A CALLER XXII. "GOD FORBID IT!" XXIII. LOVERS XXIV. A WOMAN'S LOVE XXV. MR. LEVY, JUNIOR, GOES ON THE CONTINENT XXVI. HELEN DECIDES TO GO HOME XXVII. MR. THURWELL MAKES SOME INQUIRIES XXVIII. SIR ALLAN BEAUMERVILLE VISITS THE COURT XXIX. THE SCENE CHANGES XXX. BENJAMIN LEVY RUNS HIS QUARRY TO EARTH XXXI. BENJAMIN LEVY WRITES HOME XXXII. A STRANGE TRIO OF PASSENGERS XXXIII. VISITORS FOR MR. BERNARD MADDISON XXXIV. ARRESTED XXXV. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL XXXVI. MR. LEVY PROMISES TO DO HIS BEST XXXVII. BERNARD A PRISONER XXXVIII. "THERE IS MY HAND. DARE YOU TAKE IT?" XXXIX. MR. BENJAMIN LEVY IS BUSY XL. A STRANGE BIRTHDAY PARTY XLI. INNOCENT XLII. AT LAST
THE NEW TENANT
CHAPTER I FALCON'S NEST
Thurwell Court, by Thurwell on the Sea, lay bathed in the quiet
freshness of an early morning. The dewdrops were still sparkling upon
the terraced lawns like little globules of flashing silver, and the
tumult of noisy songsters from the thick shrubberies alone broke the
sweet silence. The peacocks strutting about the grey stone balcony and
perched upon the worn balustrade were in deshabille, not being
accustomed to display their splendors to an empty paradise, and the few
fat blackbirds who were hopping about on the lawn did so in a desultory
manner, as though they were only half awake and had turned out under
protest. Stillness reigned everywhere, but it was the sweet hush of
slowly awakening day rather than the drowsy, languorous quiet of
exhausted afternoon. With one's eyes shut one could tell that the pulse
of day was only just beginning to beat. The pure atmosphere was buoyant
with the vigorous promise of morning, and gently laden with the mingled
perfumes of slowly opening flowers. There was life in the breathless
air. The sunlight was everywhere. In the distance it lay upon the dark
hillside, played upon the deep yellow gorse and purple heather of the
moorland, and, further away still, flashed upon a long silver streak of
the German Ocean. In the old fashioned gardens of the court it shone
upon luscious peaches hanging on the time mellowed red brick walls; lit
up the face and gleamed upon the hands of the stable clock, and warmed
the ancient heart of the stooping, grey haired old gardener's help who,
with blinking eyes and hands tucked in his trousers pockets, was smoking
a matutinal pipe, seated on the wheelbarrow outside the tool shed. Around the mansion itself it was very busy, casting a thousand sunbeams
upon its long line of oriel windows, and many quaint shadows of its
begabled roof upon the lawns and bright flower beds below. On one of the
terraces a breakfast table was laid for two, and here its splendour was
absolutely dazzling. It gleamed upon the sparkling silver, and the
snow white tablecloth; shone with a delicate softness upon the
freshly gathered fruit and brilliant flowers, and seemed to hover with a
gentle burnished light upon the ruddy golden hair of a girl who sat
there waiting, with her arm resting lightly upon the stone balustrade,
and her eyes straying over the quaint well kept gardens to the open
moorland and dark patches of wooded country beyond... Continue reading book >>
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