A young barrister witnesses the sudden death of one of two fellow passengers on the London Underground between St. James's Park and Charing Cross. The second passenger disappears without trace and foul play is suspected....
CHAPTER
I.THE LAST TRAIN EAST
II. WHOSE PORTRAIT IS THIS?
III. THE POTENTIAL FORTUNE
IV. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE
V. THE POLICE RETURN
VI. SAMPLES OF INK
VII. BLACK VELVET
VIII. FLIGWOOD'S RENTS
IX. THE MEDICINE BOTTLE
X. THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
XI. LADY RIVERSREADE
XII. ALIAS MADAME LISTORELLE
XIII. WHO WAS SHE?
XIV. IS IT BLACKMAIL?
XV. REVELATIONS
XVI. STILL MORE
XVII. THE TORN LABELS
XVIII. THE TELEGRAM
XIX. THE LONDON ROAD
XX. CONVERGING TRACKS
XXI. THE ORDER IN WRITING
XXII. THE HIGHLY-RESPECTABLE SOLICITOR
XXIII. THE LANDLADY OF LITTLE SMITH STREET
XXIV. THE HOUSE IN THE YARD
XXV. DEAD!
XXVI. WATERLOO
XXVII. THE ASSURANCE
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Hetherwick had dined that evening with friends who lived in Cadogan Gardens, and had stayed so late in conversation with his host that midnight had come before he left and set out for his bachelor chambers in the Temple; it was, indeed, by the fraction of a second that he caught the last east-bound train at Sloane Square. The train was almost destitute of passengers; the car which he himself entered, a first-class smoking compartment, was otherwise empty; no one came into it when the train reached Victoria. But at St. James's Park two men got in, and seated themselves opposite to Hetherwick.
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