My Lord Duke. E. W. Hornung

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       E. W. Hornung

      My Lord Duke

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066237042

       CHAPTER I

       THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY

       CHAPTER II

       "HAPPY JACK"

       CHAPTER III

       A CHANCE LOST

       CHAPTER IV

       NOT IN THE PROGRAMME

       CHAPTER V

       WITH THE ELECT

       CHAPTER VI

       A NEW LEAF

       CHAPTER VII

       THE DUKE'S PROGRESS

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE OLD ADAM

       CHAPTER IX

       AN ANONYMOUS LETTER

       CHAPTER X

       "DEAD NUTS"

       CHAPTER XI

       THE NIGHT OF THE TWENTIETH

       CHAPTER XII

       THE WRONG MAN

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE INTERREGNUM

       CHAPTER XIV

       JACK AND HIS MASTER

       CHAPTER XV

       END OF THE INTERREGNUM

       CHAPTER XVI

       "LOVE THE GIFT"

       CHAPTER XVII

       AN ANTI-TOXINE

       CHAPTER XVIII

       HECKLING A MINISTER

       CHAPTER XIX

       THE CAT AND THE MOUSE

       CHAPTER XX

       "LOVE THE DEBT"

       CHAPTER XXI

       THE BAR SINISTER

       CHAPTER XXII

       DE MORTUIS

       By E. W. HORNUNG.

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      The Home Secretary leant his golf-clubs against a chair. His was the longest face of all.

      "I am only sorry it should have come now," said Claude apologetically.

      "Just as we were starting for the links! Our first day, too!" muttered the Home Secretary.

      "I think of Claude," remarked his wife. "I can never tell you, Claude, how much I feel for you! We shall miss you dreadfully, of course; but we couldn't expect to enjoy ourselves after this; and I think, in the circumstances, that you are quite right to go up to town at once."

      "Why?" cried the Home Secretary warmly. "What good can he do in the Easter holidays? Everybody will be away; he'd much better come with me and fill his lungs with fresh air."

      "I can never tell you how much I feel for you," repeated Lady Caroline to Claude Lafont.

      "Nor I," said Olivia. "It's too horrible! I don't believe it. To think of their finding him after all! I don't believe


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