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Title: The Doctor of Pimlico
Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime

Author: William Le Queux

Release Date: September 17, 2007 [EBook #22654]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Enid Drew Back In Terror"

(_The Doctor of Pimlico_)]

THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICO

Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime

BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX

[Illustration]

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with The Macaulay Company

COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY THE MACAULAY COMPANY

_Printed in the U. S. A._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN WHICH CERTAIN SUSPICIONS ARE EXCITED 9
II. THE COMING OF A STRANGER 21
III. INTRODUCES DOCTOR WEIRMARSH 32
IV. REVEALS TEMPTATION 47
V. IN WHICH ENID ORLEBAR IS PUZZLED 56
VI. BENEATH THE ELASTIC BAND 66
VII. CONCERNING THE VELVET HAND 78
VIII. PAUL LE PONTOIS 88
IX. THE LITTLE OLD FRENCHWOMAN 97
X. IF ANYONE KNEW 107
XI. CONCERNS THE PAST 114
XII. REVEALS A CURIOUS PROBLEM 125
XIII. THE MYSTERIOUS MR. MALTWOOD 134
XIV. WHAT CONFESSION WOULD MEAN 145
XV. THREE GENTLEMEN FROM PARIS 157
XVI. THE ORDERS OF HIS EXCELLENCY 168
XVII. WALTER GIVES WARNING 177
XVIII. THE ACCUSERS 187
XIX. IN WHICH A TRUTH IS HIDDEN 199
XX. IN WHICH A TRUTH IS TOLD 207
XXI. THE WIDENED BREACH 217
XXII. CONCERNING THE BELLAIRS AFFAIR 227
XXIII. THE SILENCE OF THE MAN BARKER 234
XXIV. WHAT THE DEAD MAN LEFT 245
XXV. A