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Title: The Shadow of a Man

Author: E. W. Hornung

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Language: English

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The Shadow of a Man

The
Shadow of a Man

By E. W. Hornung

Charles Scribner's Sons
New York 1901

Copyright, 1900, by
J. B. Lippincott Co.

Copyright, 1901, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

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_CONTENTS_

_Page_

_I. The Belle of Toorak 1_

_II. Injury 14_

_III. Insult 28_

_IV. Bethune of the Hall 39_

_V. A Red Herring 58_

_VI. Below Zero 67_

_VII. A Cavalier 84_

_VIII. The Kind of Life 97_

_IX. Pax in Bello 120_

_X. The Truth by Inches 134_

_XI. Bethune v. Bethune 147_

_XII. An Escapade 166_

_XIII. Blind Man's Block 180_

_XIV. His Own Coin 196_

_XV. The Fact of the Matter 206_

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The Shadow of a Man

I

THE BELLE OF TOORAK

"And you're quite sure the place doesn't choke you off?"

"The place? Why, I'd marry you for it alone. It's just sweet!"

Of course it was nothing of the kind. There was the usual galaxy of log
huts; the biggest and best of them, the one with the verandah in which
the pair were sitting, was far from meriting the name of house wh