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Title: In Friendship's Guise

Author: Wm. Murray Graydon

Release Date: May 31, 2005 [EBook #15965]

Language: English

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In Friendship's Guise

BY WM. MURRAY GRAYDON

AUTHOR OF "The Cryptogram," etc.

1899

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.

I.--The Duplicate Rembrandt

II.--Five Years Afterwards

III.--An Old Friend

IV.--Number 320 Wardour Street

V.--A Mysterious Discussion

VI.--A Visitor from Paris

VII.--Love's Young Dream

VIII.--An Attraction in Pall Mall

IX.--Uncle and Nephew

X.--A London Sensation

XI.--A Mysterious Discovery

XII.--A Cowardly Communication

XIII.--The Tempter

XIV.--The Dinner at Richmond

XV.--From the Dead

XVI.--The Last Card

XVII.--Two Passengers from Calais

XVIII.--Home Again

XIX.--A Shock for Sir Lucius

XX.--At a Night Club

XXI.--A Quick Decision

XXII.--Another Chance

XXIII.--On the Track

XXIV.--A Fateful Decision

XXV.--A Fruitless Errand

XXVI.--A Thunderbolt from the Blue

XXVII.--An Amateur Detective

XXVIII.--A Discovery

XXIX.--The Vicar of Dunwold

XXX.--Run to Earth

XXXI.--Noah Hawker's Disclosure

XXXII.--How the Day Ended

XXXIII.--Conclusion

IN FRIENDSHIP'S GUISE.

CHAPTER I.

THE DUPLICATE REMBRANDT.

The day began well. The breakfast rolls were crisper than usual, the
butter was sweeter, and never had Diane's slender white hands poured out
more delicious coffee. Jack Clare was in the highest spirits as he
embraced his wife and sallied forth into the Boulevard St. Germain, with
a flat, square parcel wrapped in brown paper under his arm. From the
window of the entresol Diane waved a coquettish fa