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THE HOUSE OF WHISPERS ByWILLIAM LE QUEUX1910CONTENTS CHAPTER ITHE LAIRD OF GLENCARDINE CHAPTER IIFROM OUT THE NIGHT CHAPTER IIISEALS OF DESTINY

CHAPTER IVSOMETHING CONCERNING JAMES FLOCKART CHAPTER VTHE MURIES OF CONNACHAN CHAPTER VICONCERNS GABRIELLE’S SECRET CHAPTER VIICONTAINS CURIOUS CONFIDENCES

CHAPTER VIIICASTING THE BAIT CHAPTER IXREVEALS A MYSTERIOUS BUSINESS CHAPTER XDECLARES A WOMAN’S LOVE CHAPTER XICONCERNS THE WHISPERS

CHAPTER XIIEXPLAINS SOME CURIOUS FACTS CHAPTER XIIIWHAT FLOCKART FORESAW CHAPTER XIVCONCERNS THE CURSE OF THE CARDINAL CHAPTER XVFOLLOWS FLOCKART’S FORTUNES

CHAPTER XVISHOWS A GIRL’S BONDAGE CHAPTER XVIIDESCRIBES A FRENCHMAN’S VISIT CHAPTER XVIIIREVEALS THE SPY CHAPTER XIXSHOWS GABRIELLE DEFIANT

CHAPTER XXTELLS OF FLOCKART’S TRIUMPH CHAPTER XXITHROUGH THE MISTS CHAPTER XXIIBY THE MEDITERRANEAN CHAPTER XXIIIWHICH SHOWS A SHABBY FOREIGNER

CHAPTER XXIV“WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK” CHAPTER XXVSHOWS GABRIELLE IN EXILE CHAPTER XXVITHE VELVET PAW CHAPTER XXVIIBETRAYS THE BOND

CHAPTER XXVIIITHE WHISPERS AGAIN CHAPTER XXIXCONTAINS A FURTHER MYSTERY CHAPTER XXXREVEALS SOMETHING TO HAMILTON CHAPTER XXXIDESCRIBES A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE

CHAPTER XXXIIOUTSIDE THE WINDOW CHAPTER XXXIIIIS ABOUT THE MAISON LÉNARD CHAPTER XXXIVSURPRISES MR. FLOCKART CHAPTER XXXVDISCLOSES A SECRET

CHAPTER XXXVIIN WHICH GABRIELLE TELLS A STRANGE STORY CHAPTER XXXVIIINCREASES THE INTEREST CHAPTER XXXVIII“THAT MAN’S VOICE!” CHAPTER XXXIXCONTAINS THE CONCLUSION

THE HOUSE OF WHISPERS CHAPTER I THE LAIRD OF GLENCARDINE “Why, what’s the matter, child? Tell me.”

“Nothing, dad–really nothing.” “But you are breathing hard; your hand trembles; your pulse beatsquickly. There’s something amiss–I’m sure there is. Now, what is it?Come, no secrets.”

The girl, quickly snatching away her hand, answered with a forced laugh,“How absurd you really are, dear old dad! You’re always fancyingsomething or other.” “Because my senses of hearing and feeling are sharper and more developedthan those of other folk perhaps,” replied the grey-bearded oldgentleman, as he turned his sharp-cut, grey, but expressionlesscountenance to the tall, sweet-faced girl standing beside his chair.

No second glance was needed to realise the pitiful truth. The man seatedthere in his fine library, with the summer sunset slanting across thered carpet from the open French windows, was blind. Since his daughter Gabrielle had been a pretty, prattling child of nine,nursing her dolly, he had never looked upon her fair face. But he wasever as devoted to her as she to him.

Surely his was a sad and lonely life. Within the last fifteen years orso great wealth had come to him; but, alas! he was unable to enjoy it.Until eleven years ago he had been a prominent figure in politics and insociety in London. He had sat in the House for one of the divisions ofHampshire, was a member of the Carlton, and one year he found his nameamong the Birthday Honours with a K.C.M.G. For him everybody predicted abrilliant future. The Press gave prominence to his speeches, and to hishouse in Park Street came Cabinet Ministers and most of the well-knownmen of his party. Indeed, it was an open secret in a certain circle thathe had been promised a seat in the Cabinet in the near future. Then, at the very moment of his popularity, a terrible tragedy hadoccurred. He was on the platform of the Albert Hall addressing a greatmeeting at which the Prime Minister was the principal speaker. Hisspeech was a brilliant one, and the applause had been vociferous. Fullof satisfaction, he drove home that night to Park Street; but nextmorning the report spread that his brilliant political career had ended.He had suddenly been stricken by blindness.

In political circles and in the clubs the greatest consternation wascaused, and some strange gossip became rife. It was whispered in certain quarters that the affliction was notproduced by natural causes. In fact, it was a mystery, and one that hadnever been solved. The first oculists of Europe had peered into andtested his eyes, but all to no purpose. The sight had gone for ever.

Therefore, full of bitter regrets at being thus compelled to renouncethe stress and storm of political life which he loved so well, Sir HenryHeyburn had gone into strict retirement at Glencardine, his beautifulold Perthshire home, visiting London but very seldom. He was essentially a man of mystery. Even in the days of his universalpopularity the source of his vast wealth was unknown. His father, thetenth Baronet, had been sadly impoverished by the depreciation ofagricultural property in Lincolnshire, and had ended his days in thegenteel quietude of the Albany. But Sir Henry, without betraying to theworld his methods, had in fifteen years amassed a fortune which people guessed must be considerably over a million sterling.

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