PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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AUTHOR OF “ARSÈNE LUPIN,” “THE BLONDE LADY,” ETC.
TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
Chapter I. The Shot Chapter II. Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy Chapter III. The Corpse Chapter IV. Face to Face Chapter V. On the Track Chapter VI. An Historic Secret Chapter VII. The Treatise of the Needle Chapter VIII. From Cæsar to Lupin Chapter IX. Open, Sesame! Chapter X. The Treasures of the Kings of France
Valméras loved Raymonde’s melancholy charm
She put the gun to her shoulder, calmly took aim and fired
Two huge letters, each perhaps a foot long, appeared cut in relief in the granite of the floor
“We’re going now. What do you think of my cockle-shell, Beautrelet?”
Raymonde listened. The noise was repeated twice over, clearly enough to be distinguished from the medley of vague sounds that formed the great silence of the night and yet too faintly to enable her to tell whether it was near or far, within the walls of the big country-house, or outside, among the murky recesses of the park.
Arthur Conan Doyle
