JACK O' JUDGMENT
BY
EDGAR WALLACE
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON AND MELBOURNE
_Made and Printed in Great Britain by_ WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED, LONDON.
JACK O' JUDGMENT
POPULAR NOVELS
BY
EDGAR WALLACE
PUBLISHED BY WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED.
_In Various Editions_
SANDERS OF THE RIVER BONES BOSAMBO OF THE RIVER BONES IN LONDON THE KEEPERS OF THE KING'S PEACE THE COUNCIL OF JUSTICE THE DUKE IN THE SUBURBS THE PEOPLE OF THE RIVER DOWN UNDER DONOVAN PRIVATE SELBY THE ADMIRABLE CARFEW THE MAN WHO BOUGHT LONDON THE JUST MEN OF CORDOVA THE SECRET HOUSE KATE, PLUS TEN LIEUTENANT BONES THE ADVENTURES OF HEINE JACK O' JUDGMENT THE DAFFODIL MYSTERY THE NINE BEARS THE BOOK OF ALL POWER MR. JUSTICE MAXELL THE BOOKS OF BART THE DARK EYES OF LONDON CHICK SANDI, THE KING-MAKER THE THREE OAK MYSTERY THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE FROG BLUE HAND GREY TIMOTHY A DEBT DISCHARGED THOSE FOLK OF BULBORO' THE MAN WHO WAS NOBODY THE GREEN RUST THE FOURTH PLAGUE THE RIVER OF STARS
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I.--THE KNAVE OF CLUBS 7 II.--JACK O' JUDGMENT--HIS CARD 14 III.--THE DECOY 24 IV.--THE MISSING HANSON 28 V.--IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT 35 VI.--STAFFORD KING RESIGNS 42 VII.--THE COLONEL CONDUCTS HIS BUSINESS 48 VIII.--THE LISTENER AT THE DOOR 54 IX.--THE COLONEL EMPLOYS A DETECTIVE 61 X.--THE GREEK PHILLOPOLIS 67 XI.--THE COLONEL AT SCOTLAND YARD 71 XII.--BUYING A NURSING HOME 80 XIII.--THE LOVE OF STAFFORD KING 84 XIV.--THE TAKING OF MAISIE WHITE 88 XV.--THE COMMISSIONER HAS A THEORY 92 XVI.--IN THE TURKISH BATHS 96 XVII.--SOLOMON COMES BACK 100 XVIII.--THE JUDGMENT OF DEATH 106 XIX.--THE COLONEL IS SHOCKED 111 XX.--"SWELL" CREWE BACKS OUT 119 XXI.--THE BRIDE OF DEATH 123 XXII.--MAISIE TELLS HER STORY 126 XXIII.--THE GANG FUND 134 XXIV.--PINTO GOES NORTH 141 XXV.--A PATRON OF CHARITY 150 XXVI.--THE SOLDIER WHO FOLLOWED 157 XXVII.--THE CAPTURE OF "JACK" 162 XXVIII.--THE PASSING OF PHILLOPOLIS 169 XXIX.--THE VOICE IN THE ROOM 178 XXX.--DIAMONDS FOR THE BANK 186 XXXI.--THE VOICE AGAIN 194 XXXII.--LOLLIE GOES AWAY 201 XXXIII.--WHERE THE VOICE LIVED 205 XXXIV.--CONSCIENCE MONEY 210 XXXV.--IN A BOX AT THE ORPHEUM 217 XXXVI.--LOLLIE PROPOSES 224 XXXVII.--THE FALL OF PINTO 229 XXXVIII.--A USE FOR OLD FILMS 234 XXXIX.--JACK O' JUDGMENT REVEALED 244
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Jack O' Judgment by Edgar Wallace
- 2: There were people who said that Snow Gregory
- 3: Stafford was watching him with dispassionate interest
- 4: But Spillsbury was young and wild
- 5: Stafford King rose and picked up his hat
- 6: Pinto lifted his hat with a smile
- 7: The man called Hanson shook his head
- 8: Maisie White was the daughter of a man who
- 9: Spillsbury looks like squealing
- 10: Fellows who didn't work like common blackmailers
- 11: Lollie darling dear little soul
- 12: The girl fingered her chin thoughtfully
- 13: Colonel Boundary grunted and continued his walk
- 14: To myself and my business associates
- 15: All policemen are policemen to me
- 16: But it was blackmail which you and Pinto engineered
- 17: And Colonel Boundary passed out
- 18: Stafford King made a little grimace
- 19: That Hanson intended blackmailing the blackmailers
- 20: This time Hanson found his voice
- 21: Hanson was undoubtedly murdered
- 22: Stafford was looking down at him abstractedly
- 23: Stafford was silent for a second
- 24: Stafford King had indeed forgotten the statement
- 25: Of the firm of Crotin and Principle
- 26: You'll buy no Riverborne Mill of me
- 27: Suddenly Crotin leaped at him in a blind fury
- 28: Slipped through the narrow entry
- 29: Pinto looked up at the light again
- 30: But we saw you going away from Albemarle Place
- 31: You don't suggest it is 'Snow' Gregory
- 32: That fellow's got on your nerves
- 33: You have a drink of whisky out of the same bottle
- 34: Our firm has been engaged by a young lady
- 35: But I'm not going to stand for Phillopolis
- 36: Paul Phillopolis was a small Greek merchant
- 37: Phillopolis pulled a long face
- 38: He looked from the card to Pinto
- 39: Stafford shrugged his shoulders
- 40: Sir Stanley leaned back in his chair
- 41: Said the commissioner and drew a slip of paper towards him
- 42: Must suppress illegal practices
- 43: But came against a deed of trust and the Court of Chancery
- 44: Said the commissionaire emphatically
- 45: Take him straight away to Washburn Avenue
- 46: Stafford King agreed with a gesture
- 47: And that's the greatest of all your illusions
- 48: She waited for Pinto to disclose his business
- 49: Which still reeked with chloroform
- 50: Stafford found his grey haired chief
- 51: He hit his knee a smack and Stafford waited
- 52: Raoul is a grateful little beast
- 53: There is a house called Bishopsholme
- 54: A big framed man who was reading a newspaper
- 55: She's at a little place at Putney Heath
- 56: Solomon White stood irresolutely
- 57: And a man in a black mackintosh stepped out
- 58: Emitting a scent of mustiness and decay
- 59: For it is reparation you make this night for two dead men
- 60: CHAPTER XIXTHE COLONEL IS SHOCKED The Putney mystery
- 61: And I guess that somebody is the fellow who settled Raoul
- 62: I distinctly remember him talking about Balliol
- 63: Stafford King is in the building
- 64: There was the affair of Lady Glenmerrin
- 65: Pinto would go his own way just when it suited him
- 66: Consistently administered in every drink she took
- 67: Nor from the maudlin little doctor
- 68: Pinto collapsed he had fainted
- 69: She recalled the cracked voice of her rescuer
- 70: And with a little nod was gone
- 71: And Stafford jumped up with a cry
- 72: He was lured there and murdered
- 73: And their bait isn't the kind of bait that you'd swallow
- 74: He ain't stopped squealing yet
- 75: Whilst Pinto waited impatiently outside
- 76: CHAPTER XXIVPINTO GOES NORTH Had Pinto been a psychologist
- 77: Selby was the receiver of letters
- 78: Where you can meet Crotin himself
- 79: And Pinto eyed him approvingly
- 80: I shouldn't discuss things with Snakit
- 81: In view of Lady Sybil Crotin's unpopularity
- 82: Crotin found himself going white
- 83: John Crotin was dressing when his wife returned
- 84: For the first time he looked at Crotin
- 85: He got out at Huddersfield too
- 86: Asked Crotin between his teeth
- 87: And Pinto clinched his argument
- 88: I'm staying at the Huddersfield Arms
- 89: I can't imagine Pinto using a gun
- 90: We must compel Crotin to prosecute
- 91: I understand that you appeared wearing the costume
- 92: When he turned into the stage box at the Orpheum
- 93: Cartwright shrugged his shoulders
- 94: Pinto watched the rest of the play with a lighter heart
- 95: But Phillopolis was unimpressed
- 96: Phillopolis seemed to have forgotten Pinto's presence
- 97: You don't suppose that Phillopolis is a fence
- 98: Phillopolis has got to take his medicine
- 99: Revealing two wads of banknotes
- 100: She interfered began Pinto
- 101: Pinto gazed at him in amazement
- 102: Phillopolis was something of a tyrant
- 103: I don't know whether Lollie is betraying us
- 104: He came out into Hatton Garden
- 105: Take Colonel Boundary to the vaults
- 106: It was a name that Lollie had used before
- 107: And I suggest that that pal is Lollie Marsh
- 108: We've got to be Lollie has not played you false
- 109: But I am convinced that Lollie is speaking the truth
- 110: If you want to join Lollie later
- 111: Asked the colonel suspiciously
- 112: He handed the knife back to Pinto
- 113: He replaced the earpieces where he had found them
- 114: Saw that the cheque was made payable to bearer
- 115: I thought said Pinto incoherently
- 116: I hadn't opened my letters when Pinto came
- 117: There was nothing but a black mass of pulp
- 118: You needn't tell Pinto what happened this morning
- 119: She dressed and took a taxi to the Orpheum
- 120: A mile out of Bromley on the main road
- 121: Her quest for Crewe had as little result
- 122: Somehow I don't think Pinto will go
- 123: And the colonel has told you there's a chance
- 124: Pinto had a lot of business to do at the theatre that night
- 125: He said to the detective who held Pinto
- 126: Said Lollie after a moment's hesitation
- 127: Was a Balliol man who had left Oxford in that year
- 128: He chuckled and went out of the flat into the street
- 129: Underneath the silver cupboard
- 130: Twining them about the legs of the chairs
- 131: I telegraphed to an Englishman at Finisterre
- 132: Smiled Sir Stanley and dismissed him with a nod
- 133: The workman thanked the porter
- 134: Old Dan Boundary has tricked them all
- 135: Crewe picked him up at Monte Carlo
- 136: Stafford laid his hand upon Sir Stanley's
- 137: Sir Stanley and I watched them go off
- 138: Carlton Dawe has very few rivals