A Duel by Richard Marsh

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A DUEL

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

The Beetle: A Mystery Garnered A Metamorphosis The Twickenham Peerage Both Sides of the Veil The Seen and the Unseen Marvels and Mysteries Miss Arnott's Marriage The Goddess: a Demon The Joss: a Reversion The Crime and the Criminal

A DUEL

BY RICHARD MARSH

METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON

_First published_, 1904

CONTENTS

BOOK I.--Wife

CHAPTER I

The End of the Honeymoon.

CHAPTER II

An Offer of Marriage.

CHAPTER III

Whom God hath Joined.

CHAPTER IV

A Second Honeymoon.

CHAPTER V

A Conversation with the Doctor.

CHAPTER VI

Husband and Wife.

CHAPTER VII

A Tug of War.

CHAPTER VIII

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1: A Duel by Richard Marsh
2: CHAPTER XVI Margaret is Puzzled
3: But the postmark on the envelope was Islington
4: The nearest railway station was at Carnoustie
5: She set off in the direction of Carnoustie
6: She stood upon her one sound foot and shouted Hallo
7: Her ankle was occasioning her no little pain
8: He passed her the reins and descended
9: My name is Twelves David Twelves
10: Neither notice nor clergyman is needed
11: The name of your future husband is Grahame Cuthbert Grahame
12: I take Isabel Burney to be my wife
13: The doctor and Nannie paid her no heed
14: Nannie turned swiftly round to her
15: Without giving Isabel a chance to retort
16: She had understood that bigamy was bigamy
17: Nannie placed the tray upon a table
18: Nothing could be got out of Nannie
19: Nannie has done all for you that I could have done
20: Then is Cuthbert Grahame your husband
21: Cuthbert Grahame is one of them
22: Inconvenience is hardly the proper word
23: Nothing could be got out of Nannie
24: An absolutely ugly man was to her an object of aversion
25: Her impulse changed in the making
26: It competed with weeds for possession of the footpaths
27: You'll keep tumbling into ditches and scrambling out again
28: My conversational powers soon become exhausted
29: Nannie was a dour old Scotchwoman
30: Then she waited for Nannie to rise
31: And with the other at Nannie down below
32: Isabel could be quite agreeable
33: Now that Nannie was laid on her back
34: The sight of him took her wholly by surprise
35: Don't you get tired of lying there
36: A young woman younger than you and prettier
37: The sapphires and the pearls are all very well
38: ' So you started to make her smart
39: It would depend on what there was in it
40: This man worth a quarter of a million
41: Then lift the bracket out of its socket
42: Only the date will be different
43: Which she felt certain she would be asked to draft
44: Isabel instinctively drew back
45: The bell and knocker were audible again
46: Drawing close up to the glass panels she exclaimed
47: Cuthbert may be rid of you in peace
48: And that Nannie hadn't had a hand in the game at all
49: To Isabel Burney she hesitated
50: Isabel repeated the lie she had told Nannie
51: That it wasn't Margaret Wallace at the door
52: I'll see he's propped up high enough
53: It was a strange signature Cuthbert Grahame
54: In his efforts to find an expletive to fit the occasion
55: Under the single pillow which remained
56: Threading his way among the bracken
57: I'm not a thief whatever else I am
58: You're living in Cuthbert Grahame's house
59: From what I understand he's been dying for years
60: The doctor was standing at the head of the bed
61: I found this under his pillow his one remaining pillow
62: Lamb to think that she is giving me flowers
63: Talfourd stared at the speaker in undisguised amazement
64: Mostly containing circulars of different kinds
65: 'It's by a man named Talfourd Harry Talfourd'
66: Lady Glover Lady Glover is hardly my heroine
67: Winton has the refusal of the play
68: It's my experience that in literature Literature
69: It's possible that you'll shortly be revenged
70: And so put Winton in the shade entirely
71: I daresay she has an axe of her own to grind
72: For none can say that I look like a gouty subject
73: You went to see Cuthbert Grahame
74: But I've known this lassie all her days
75: McTavish lived in Mecklenberg Square
76: One who is already sick unto death
77: If she had some of Cuthbert Grahame's money
78: Lamb was not born in the caste of Vere de Vere
79: I believe that woman played at being Nannie
80: Altogether she's had scarcely thirty thousand pounds
81: She met the secretary of the Hardwood Company
82: A pettifogging rascal of the name of Luker
83: McTavish wiped his capacious brow
84: Miss Johnson made a remark to Harry Talfourd
85: I have heard Winton on the point before
86: ' and why Talfourd doesn't want her to
87: Miss Johnson turned disdainfully from Mr
88: And ask her permission to bring you
89: Isaac Luker one could hardly conceive
90: McTavish Brown have got them
91: It is possible that he may make you a proposition
92: I don't want to quarrel with you I hate quarrelling
93: I daresay I could manage with a thousand
94: And that's been spent and more than spent
95: Lamb beat a precipitate retreat
96: Having provided them with food
97: Even what songs they were about to write
98: Harry Talfourd and Margaret Wallace came
99: Talfourd said seemed to be the fact
100: Talfourd did not find it easy to get a cab
101: Winton asked his question Well
102: 'The Gordian Knot' won't spoil by keeping
103: Horrid things don't really matter
104: And from the envelope a letter
105: Who does she mean imitated her voice
106: Margaret listened with eyes which grew wider and wider open
107: That sort of thing's not cleverness
108: Things are getting plainer and plainer
109: A nice little bait with which to cover the hook
110: For it will be a duel to the death
111: Her gown was all creased and crumpled
112: They are more than three months overdue
113: Cottrell was standing in the doorway
114: Luker looked at the lady at the head of the staircase
115: Don't you call a quarter of a million adequate security
116: McTavish Brown as my legal adviser
117: McTavish had an uncomfortable feeling
118: Lamb condescended to waste no more words on him
119: Observing as he moved Lady Dykes
120: Not all the policemen in London couldn't do it
121: I'll not give you a cheque for tenpence
122: Luker caught the lady by the wrist
123: Luker when the lady joined him in the street without
124: I think I would prefer the tigress
125: Luker stood to comment on the action
126: Cottrell gesticulating on the pavement
127: The policeman looked up at the lady
128: It was labelled Pure Ether Poison
129: And when Margaret hummed and hawed
130: You haven't you haven't a brace of sovereigns on you now
131: McTavish had become rubicund with agitation
132: McTavish had a chance of speaking
133: I should know where Cuthbert Grahame's money is
134: The portfolio she placed beneath her arm
135: Do you mean that you're a bailiff
136: Laying her portfolio on a small table
137: Or the tore torus is a Latin word which architects use
138: Gregory Lamb had not moved or spoken a word
139: Luker called her attention to its presence
140: Believe that the money's inside that mantelpiece
141: Of presenting you with Cuthbert Grahame's fortune
142: You'll be more than a millionaire
143: Cuthbert Grahame by the train before this
144: The two passengers surrendered their tickets
145: If this cart isn't good enough
146: Luker scrambled into the vehicle itself
147: Luker was the first to give expression to his feelings
148: Revealing its whereabouts by the light of her lantern
149: I'm not afraid of Miss Margaret Wallace
150: The lantern swinging in her hand
151: Luker had succeeded in lighting the lantern
152: When the light ceased to gleam
153: All traces of boldness had vanished altogether
154: The light disappeared in the lantern
155: A woman's face Nannie Foreshaw
156: Still weeping Cuthbert Grahame
157: Did you murder Cuthbert Grahame
158: McTavish was evidently very angry
159: Talfourd is one of their most valued clients