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Title: The Secret of the Tower

Author: Hope, Anthony

Release Date: November 17, 2003 [EBook #10057]

Language: English

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THE SECRET OF THE TOWER

BY ANTHONY HOPE

1919

AUTHOR OF "THE PRISONER OF ZENDA," "RUPERT OF HENTZAU," ETC.

CONTENTS

I. DOCTOR MARY'S PAYING GUEST

II. THE GENERAL REMEMBERS

III. MR. SAFFRON AT HOME

IV. PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE

V. A FAMILIAR IMPLEMENT

VI. ODD STORY OF CAPTAIN DUGGLE!

VII. A GENTLEMANLY STRANGER

VIII. CAPTAIN ALEC RAISES HIS VOICE

IX. DOCTOR MARY'S ULTIMATUM

X. THAT MAGICAL WORD MOROCCO!

XI. THE CAR BEHIND THE TREES

XII. THE SECRET OF THE TOWER

XIII. RIGHT OF CONQUEST

XIV. THE SCEPTER IN THE GRAVE

XV. A NORMAL CASE

XVI. DEAD MAJESTY

XVII. THE CHIEF MOURNERS

XVIII. THE GOLD AND THE TREASURE

CHAPTER I

DOCTOR MARY'S PAYING GUEST

"Just in time, wasn't it?" asked Mary Arkroyd.

"Two days before the--the ceremony! Mercifully it had all been kept very
quiet, because it was only three months since poor Gilly was killed. I
forget whether you ever met Gilly? My half-brother, you know?"

"Only once--in Collingham Gardens. He had an _exeat_, and dashed in one
Saturday morning when we were just finishing our work. Don't you
remember?"

"Yes, I think I do. But since my engagement I'd gone into colors. Oh, of
course I've gone back into mourning now! And everything was
ready--settlements and so on, you know. And rooms taken at Bournemouth.
And then it all came out!"

"How?"

"Well, Eustace--Captain Cranster, I mean. Oh, I think he really must have
had shell-shock, as he said, even though the doctor seemed to doubt it!
He gave the Colonel as a reference in some shop, and--and the bank
wouldn't pay the check. Other checks turned