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The Beetle A Mystery

Chapter 9 THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET

Word Count: 1756    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

indow I stood shivering. A shower had recently commenced,-the falling rain was being blown before the breeze. I was in a terrible

I was done; had I not been held up, willy nilly, by the spell which was upon me

r was not yet a

nse of the presence of an evil thing. How much of it was fact, and how much of it was the product of imagination I cannot say; but, looking back, it seems to me that it was as if I had been taken out of the corporeal body to be plunged into the inner chambers of all nameless sin. There was the sound of something flopping from off the bed on to the ground, and

nd the room was all in brightness. There, on the bed, in the familiar attitude between the sheets, his head resting on his hand, h

e a thief!-Is it always through th

to give me time t

ell?-the great Paul Lessing

ty saw,-the things he said, and the manner in which he said them, were alike intended to add to m

ef he found you,-were you not ashamed? Since, like a thief he found you, how comes i

that, all at once, he

ou are small, but he is smaller,-your great Paul Le

ght be a modicum of truth in what, with such an intensity of bitterness, the speaker suggested. The picture which,

erience not the slightest difficulty in de

Paul Lessingham is as great a thief as you,-and gre

still; then exclaimed,

hat you ha

abstracted from the little drawer. Perceiving my disinclination to his near neighbourhood, he

stand close at my side? You, with your white skin,

ed if I could possibly be mistaken in the creature's sex. I would have given much to have been able to strike him acr

notice what I was

he drawer in the bureau-the drawer which was locked-and which you use

is nails had been talons. He turned the packet over and over, glaring at it as he di

You hid it as one hides treasure. There should be something here worth having, worth seeing, w

out by a string of pink ribbon,-a fact

d could tie a knot like that,-who would have guessed yours were such agile fingers?-So! An endorsement

human countenance. His jaw dropped open so that his yellow fangs gleamed though his parted lips,-he held his breath so long that each moment I looked to see him fall down in a fit; the veins stood out all over his face and head like seams

,-as I saw!-Marjorie Lindon!-Sweet Marjorie!-His dear love!-Paul Lessingham's dear love!-She with the lily

e never would have done re-reading them. They were on thick white paper, of a peculiar shade of whiteness, with untrimmed edges, On each sheet a crest and an address were stamped in gold, and all the sheets were of the same shape

snarls than anything more human,-like some savage beast nursing its pent-up rage. Wh

dear love has found it

gham!-Paul

renzy of hatred with which the speaker

t on the accursed stream of the bitter waters, to stink under the blood-grimed sun! And for her-for Marjorie Lindon!-for his dear love!-it shall come to pass that she shal

I was there. But, on a sudden, glancing aside, he saw me, and remembered,-and was

ll live!-to make a mock of one

with his horrid hands, bearing me backwards on to the floor; I felt his

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ding to Sydney

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1 Chapter 1 OUTSIDE2 Chapter 2 INSIDE3 Chapter 3 THE MAN IN THE BED4 Chapter 4 A LONELY VIGIL5 Chapter 5 AN INSTRUCTION TO COMMIT BURGLARY6 Chapter 6 A SINGULAR FELONY7 Chapter 7 THE GREAT PAUL LESSINGHAM8 Chapter 8 THE MAN IN THE STREET9 Chapter 9 THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET10 Chapter 10 REJECTED11 Chapter 11 A MIDNIGHT EPISODE12 Chapter 12 A MORNING VISITOR13 Chapter 13 THE PICTURE14 Chapter 14 THE DUCHESS' BALL15 Chapter 15 MR LESSINGHAM SPEAKS16 Chapter 16 ATHERTON'S MAGIC VAPOUR17 Chapter 17 MAGIC -OR MIRACLE 18 Chapter 18 THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE BEETLE19 Chapter 19 THE LADY RAGES20 Chapter 20 A HEAVY FATHER21 Chapter 21 THE TERROR IN THE NIGHT22 Chapter 22 THE HAUNTED MAN23 Chapter 23 THE WAY HE TOLD HER24 Chapter 24 A WOMAN'S VIEW25 Chapter 25 THE MAN IN THE STREET No.2526 Chapter 26 A FATHER'S NO27 Chapter 27 THE TERROR BY NIGHT28 Chapter 28 THE STRANGE STORY OF THE MAN IN THE STREET29 Chapter 29 THE HOUSE ON THE ROAD FROM THE WORKHOUSE30 Chapter 30 THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF MR HOLT31 Chapter 31 THE TERROR BY DAY32 Chapter 32 A NEW CLIENT33 Chapter 33 WHAT CAME OF LOOKING THROUGH A LATTICE34 Chapter 34 AFTER TWENTY YEARS35 Chapter 35 A BRINGER OF TIDINGS36 Chapter 36 WHAT THE TIDINGS WERE37 Chapter 37 WHAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER THE FLOOR38 Chapter 38 THE REST OF THE FIND39 Chapter 39 MISS LOUISA COLEMAN40 Chapter 40 WHAT MISS COLEMAN SAW THROUGH THE WINDOW41 Chapter 41 THE CONSTABLE,-HIS CLUE,-AND THE CAB42 Chapter 42 THE QUARRY DOUBLES43 Chapter 43 THE MURDER AT MRS 'ENDERSON'S44 Chapter 44 THE MAN WHO WAS MURDERED45 Chapter 45 ALL THAT MRS 'ENDERSON KNEW46 Chapter 46 THE SUDDEN STOPPING47 Chapter 47 THE CONTENTS OF THE THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGE48 Chapter 48 THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER