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WARNED AGAIN! The breakfast hour had not yet arrived when I got home. I went into the garden to refresh my eyes—a little weary of the solemn uniformity of color in Fordwitch Wood—by looking at the f…
WARNED FOR THE LAST TIME! My loyalty towards the afflicted man, whose friendly advances I had seen good reason to return, was in no sense shaken. His undeserved misfortunes, his manly appeal to me a…
THE CLARET JUG I perceived but one change in the Lodger's miserable room, since I had seen it last. A second table was set against one of the walls. Our boiling water for the tea was kept ther…
GLOODY SETTLES THE ACCOUNT A night of fever; a night, when I did slumber for a few minutes, of horrid dreams—this was what I might have expected, and this is what really happened. The fresh morning …
THE MILLER'S HOSPITALITY On the way to Toller's cottage, my fears for Cristel weighed heavily on my mind. That the man who had tried to poison me was capable of committing any other outra…
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION Twice, I looked into Toller's room during the remainder of the night, and found him sleeping. When the sun rose, I could endure the delay no longer. I woke him. "Wh…
UTTER FAILURE My lawyer took a serious view of the disaster that had overtaken us. He would trust nobody but his head clerk to act in my interests, after the servant had been followed to the London …
THE MISTRESS OF TRIMLEY DEEN Three weary months had passed, when a new idea was put into my head by an Englishman whom I met at Trieste. He advised turning my back on Europe, and trying the effect o…
