The Queen's Scarlet / The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
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Two rooks flew over the Cathedral Close, and as they neared the old square Norman tower they cawed in a sneering way. That was enough. Out like magic came the jackdaws from hole and corner-snapping, snarling, and barking birdily-to join in a hue and cry as they formed a pack to drive away the bucolic intruders who dared to invade the precincts sacred to daws from the beginning of architectural time; and this task over, they returned to sit on corbel, leaden spout, crevice, and ledge, to erect the feathers of their powdered heads and make remarks to one another, till the chimes rang out and the...
Chapters (84)
- George Manville Fenn "The Queen's Scarlet"
- Chapter One.
- Head First.
- Chapter Two.
- In Hot Blood.
- Chapter Three.
- Two Paces to the Rear.
- Chapter Four.
- Mark in a Hole.
- Chapter Five.
- Right Forward.
- Chapter Six.
- Down in the Depths.
- Chapter Seven.
- Jerry sees the worst.
- Chapter Eight.
- Another Turn of the Wheel.
- Chapter Nine.
- Dead—and Buried.
- Chapter Ten.
- Into the Swift Waters.
- Chapter Eleven.
- A Good Servant and Bad Master.
- Chapter Twelve.
- A Hard Fight.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- The Goal.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- The Lads in Red.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- In Pipe-Claydom.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- “You meant it, then?”
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Quavering among Crotchets.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Dick finds a Pupil.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- The Night of the Serenade.
- Chapter Twenty.
- Beneath the Lady’s Lattice-Pane.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- Dick Smithson’s Anti-Fat.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- Dick Smithson sees a Ghost.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- Haunted.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- The Strange Complication.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- Jerry to the Front.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- Finding a Leech.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- Dick pipes—His Cousin dances.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- The Alarm.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- A fiery Trial.
- Chapter Thirty.
- The Echo of the Ball.
- Chapter Thirty One.
- Down in the Dumps.
- Chapter Thirty Two.
- A startling Fact.
- Chapter Thirty Three.
- The Missing Man.
- Chapter Thirty Four.
- “Too late! Too late!”
- Chapter Thirty Five.
- Dead or Alive?
- Chapter Thirty Six.
- A Secret’s Limit.
- Chapter Thirty Seven.
- The Coward’s Blow.
- Chapter Thirty Eight.
- Something in the Hops.
- Chapter Thirty Nine.
- A good Genius.
- Chapter Forty.
- Jerry lets out the Cat.
- Chapter Forty One.
- “Halt!”
- The End.
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