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Title: Havoc

Author: E. Philips Oppenheim

Posting Date: March 21, 2009 [EBook #2287]
Release Date: August, 2000

Language: English

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Havoc

by

E. Philips Oppenheim

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I CROWNED HEADS MEET
II ARTHUR DORWARD'S "SCOOP"
III "OURS IS A STRANGE COURTSHIP"
IV THE NIGHT TRAIN FROM VIENNA
V "VON BEHRLING HAS THE PACKET"
VI VON BEHRLING IS TEMPTED
VII "WE PLAY FOR GREAT STAKES
VIII THE HAND OF MISFORTUNE
IX ROBBING THE DEAD
X BELLAMY IS OUTWITTED
XI VON BEHRLING'S FATE
XII BARON DE STREUSS' PROPOSAL
XIII STEPHEN LAVERICK'S CONSCIENCE
XIV ARTHUR MORRISON'S COLLAPSE
XV LAVERICK'S PARTNER FLEES
XVI THE WAITER AT THE "BLACK POST
XVII THE PRICE OF SILENCE
XVIII THE LONELY CHORUS GIRL
XIX MYSTERIOUS INQUIRIES
XX LAVERICK IS CROSS EXAMINED
XXI MADEMOISELLE IDIALE'S VISIT
XXII ACTIVITY OF AUSTRIAN SPIES
XXIII LAVERICK AT THE OPERA
XXIV A SUPPER PARTY AT LUIGI'S
XXV JIM SHEPHERD'S SCARE
XXVI THE DOCUMENT DISCOVERED
XXVII PENETRATING A MYSTERY
XXVIII LAVERICK'S NARROW ESCAPE
XXIX LASSEN'S TREACHERY DISCOVERED
XXX THE CONTEST FOR THE PAPERS
XXXI MISS LENEVEU'S MESSAGE
XXXII MORRISON IS DESPERATE
XXXIII LAVERICK'S ARREST
XXXIV MORRISON'S DISCLOSURE
XXXV BELLAMY'S SUCCESS
XXXVI LAVERICK ACQUITTED
XXXVII THE PLOT TEAT FAILED
XXXVIII A FAREWELL APPEARANCE

HAVOC

CHAPTER I

CROWNED HEADS MEET

Bellamy, King's Spy, and Dorward, journalist, known to fame in every
English-speaking country, stood before the double window of their
spacious sitting-room, looking down upon the thoroughfare beneath.
Both men were laboring under a bitter sense of failure. Bellamy's
face was dark with forebodings; Dorward was irritated and nervous.
Failure was a new thing to him--a thing wh