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Swirling Waters. Max Rittenberg
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isbn 4064066194635
Автор произведения Max Rittenberg
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Max Rittenberg
Swirling Waters
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066194635
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV ON THE SCENT OF A MYSTERY
CHAPTER V THE FIRST MOVE IN THE GAME
CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE
CHAPTER VII A SEAT BY THE ARENA
CHAPTER VIII WHO AND WHERE IS RIVIÈRE?
CHAPTER X LARSSEN TURNS ANOTHER CORNER
CHAPTER XI A LETTER FROM RIVIÈRE
CHAPTER XII THE SECOND MEETING
CHAPTER XIII AT THE MAISON CARRÉE
CHAPTER XIV BY THE DRUIDS' TOWER
CHAPTER XV WAITING THE VERDICT
CHAPTER XVII RIVIÈRE IS CALLED BACK
CHAPTER XXII THE CHAMELEON MIND
CHAPTER XXIII LARSSEN'S MAN ONCE AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII THE COUNTER-MOVE
CHAPTER XXXI THE REINS HAD SLIPPED
CHAPTER XXXIII LARSSEN'S APPEAL
CHAPTER XXXIV ON BOARD THE "STARLIGHT"
A SELECTION OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY METHUEN AND CO. LTD., LONDON 36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
A selection of Messrs. Methuen's publications
Part II.—A Selection of Series
Part III.—A Selection of Works of Fiction
CHAPTER I
THE WHIRLPOOL
On the crucial night of his career, 14 March, 191-, Clifford Matheson, financier, was speeding in a taxi-cab to the Gare de Lyon.
He was a clean-limbed man of thirty-seven. There was usually a look of masterfulness in the firm lines of his face, the straight, direct glance, the stiff, close-cut moustache. But to-night his eyes were tired, very tired. He leant back in a corner of the cab with drooping shoulders as though utterly world-weary.
At the station his wife and father-in-law were looking impatiently for his arrival. They stood at the door of their wagon-lit in the Côte d'Azur Rapide, searching the crowded platform for him. It was now ten to eight, and the express was timed to pull out of the Gare de Lyon at eight o'clock sharp.
"Late again!" growled Sir Francis Letchmere. "Clifford makes a deuced casual sort of husband. Bad form, you know!"
Good form and bad form were the foot-rules by which he measured mankind.
Olive bit her lip. It galled her pride that Clifford should not be early on the platform to see to her comforts. The attentions of her father and maid did not satisfy her; she wanted Clifford to be there