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The Survivor

Chapter 5 HOW THE ADDRESS WAS LOST

Word Count: 1403    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

m of the autumn afternoon was deepened. The speed of the train decreased, the heart of Douglas Jesson beat fast with anticipation. For now indeed he was near the end of his journey, the beginning of

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ted-a tall, distinguished looking figure, and very noticeable amongst the motley crowd who were streaming from the train. Once he fancied that her eyes strayed along the way by which he had left. A moment later she was accosted by a man who had just driven into the station. She seemed to greet him without enthusiasm. He, on the other hand, was obviously welcoming her warmly. He too was tall, carefully dressed and well groomed, middle aged, a type, he supposed, of the men of her world. There was a few minutes' conversation, then they moved acr

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e had woven many dreams of this future which lay now actually within his grasp. He had stolen up the mountain path whilst the little village lay sleeping, and watched the shadows pass across the hills, and the darkness steal softly down upon the landscape stretched out like patchwork below. Then with the night and the absence of all human sounds had come that sweet and mystical sense of loneliness which had so often brought him peace at a time when the smallness of the day's events and the tyranny of his home life h

first time, he noticed that he himself was attracting some attention. Then he remembered his clothes, shabby enough, but semi-clerical, and he walked boldly into a large ready-made clothing establishment, where everything was marked in plain figures, and where layfigures of gentlemen with waxy faces, attired in th

here Big Ben boomed out the hour of six, and he realised with beating heart that those must be the Houses of Parliament across on the other side. A cold breeze came up and blew in his face, but he scarcely heeded it. It was the mother river which flowed beneath him-the greatest of the world's cities into which he had come, a wanderer, yet at heart one of her sons. Now at last he was in touch with his kind. Oh, what a welcome present-how gladly he realised tha

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1 Chapter 1 THE SERMON THAT WAS NEVER PREACHED2 Chapter 2 A STRANGE BETROTHAL3 Chapter 3 THE MAN WHO WAS IN A HURRY4 Chapter 4 EXIT MR. DOUGLAS GUEST5 Chapter 5 HOW THE ADDRESS WAS LOST6 Chapter 6 THE YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY HEARS SOME NEWS7 Chapter 7 A NIGHT IN HELL-AND NEXT DAY8 Chapter 8 THE AUTHOR OF NO MAN'S LAND 9 Chapter 9 THE EDITOR OF THE IBEX RECEIVES A STRANGE LETTER10 Chapter 10 A WOMAN OF WHIMS11 Chapter 11 DOUGLAS GUEST GETS HIS CHANCE 12 Chapter 12 THE MAN WHO NEARLY WENT UNDER13 Chapter 13 THE FIRST TASTE OF FAME14 Chapter 14 A VISITOR FROM SCOTLAND YARD15 Chapter 15 EMILY DE REUSS TELLS A LIE16 Chapter 16 JOAN STRONG, AVENGER17 Chapter 17 A PLAIN QUESTION AND A WARNING18 Chapter 18 THE TASTE OF THE LOTUS19 Chapter 19 A MAN WITHOUT A PAST20 Chapter 20 CICELY ASKS A QUESTION21 Chapter 21 THE REBELLION OF DREXLEY22 Chapter 22 DREXLEY SPEAKS OUT23 Chapter 23 CICELY'S SECRET24 Chapter 24 THE COUNTESS, THE COUSIN, AND THE CRITIC25 Chapter 25 A TRAGIC INTERRUPTION26 Chapter 26 A VISITOR FOR DOUGLAS JESSON27 Chapter 27 FELLOW-CRIMINALS28 Chapter 28 THE LITTLE FIGURE IN BLACK29 Chapter 29 JOAN STRONG FINDS HER BROTHER30 Chapter 30 DAVID AND JOAN31 Chapter 31 DREXLEY FORESEES DANGER32 Chapter 32 A SUPPER AT THE MILAN, AND A MEETING33 Chapter 33 A MISUNDERSTANDING34 Chapter 34 THE WOOING OF CICELY35 Chapter 35 THE NET OF JOAN'S VENGEANCE36 Chapter 36 A SCENE AT THE CLUB37 Chapter 37 CICELY MAKES HER CHOICE38 Chapter 38 SHE WAS A WOMAN I WAS A COWARD! 39 Chapter 39 A JOURNEY-AND A WEDDING40 Chapter 40 A CALL BEFORE THE CURTAIN