Everett-Green, Evelyn, 1856-1932 / 2008-07-19 00:00:00
EBOOK THE SECRET CHAMBER AT CHAD ***
Produced by Martin Robb
THE SECRET CHAMBER AT CHAD
by Everett Evelyn-Green.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I: A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR.
CHAPTER II: THE HOUSEHOLD AT CHAD.
CHAPTER III: BROTHER EMMANUEL.
CHAPTER IV: THE TRAVELLING PREACHER.
CHAPTER V: A WARNING.
CHAPTER VI: WATCHED!
CHAPTER VII: AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE.
CHAPTER VIII: HIDDEN AWAY.
CHAPTER IX: THE SEARCH.
CHAPTER X: FROM PERIL TO SAFETY.
Chapter I: A Mysterious Visitor.
The great house at Chad was wrapped in sleep. The brilliant beams
of a June moon illuminated the fine pile of gray masonry with a
strong white light. Every castellated turret and twisted chimney
stood out in bold relief from the heavy background of the pine wood
behind, and the great courtyard lay white and still, lined by a
dark rim of ebon shadow.
Chad, without being exactly a baronial hall of the first magnitude,
was nevertheless a very fine old house. It had been somewhat shorn
of its pristine glories during the Wars of the Roses. One out of
its original two quadrangles had then been laid in ruins, and had
never been rebuilt.
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