The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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Preface
Chapter 1. What the Argus Said
Chapter 2. The Evidence at the Inquest
Chapter 3. One Hundred Pounds Reward
Chapter 4. Mr. Gorby Makes a Start
Chapter 5. Mrs. Hableton Unbosoms Herself
Chapter 6. Mr. Gorby Makes Further Discoveries
Chapter 7. The Wool King
Chapter 8. Brian Takes a Walk and a Drive
Chapter 9. Mr. Gorby is Satisfied at Last
Chapter 10. In the Queen's Name
Chapter 11. Counsel for the Prisoner
Chapter 12. She was a True Woman
Chapter 13. Madge Makes a Discovery
Chapter 14. Another Richmond in the Field
Chapter 15. A Woman of the People
Chapter 16. Missing
Chapter 17. The Trial
Chapter 18. Sal Rawlins Tells All she Knows
Chapter 19. The Verdict of the Jury
Chapter 20. The "Argus" Gives its Opinion
Chapter 21. Three Months Afterwards
Chapter 22. A Daughter of Eve
Chapter 23. Across the Walnuts and the Wine
Chapter 24. Brian Receives a Letter
Chapter 25. What Dr. Chinston Said
Chapter 26. Kilsip has a Theory of His Own
Chapter 27. Mother Guttersnipe Joins the Majority
Chapter 28. Mark Frettlby has a Visitor
Chapter 29. Mr. Calton's Curiosity is Satisfied
Chapter 30. Nemesis
Chapter 31. Hush-Money
Chapter 32. De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum
Chapter 33. The Confession
Chapter 34. The Hands of Justice
Chapter 35. "The Love that Lives."
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Chapter 23. Across the Walnuts and the Wine

Moore, sweetest of bards, sings -

"Oh, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream."

But he made this assertion in his callow days, before he had learned the value of a good digestion. To a young and fervid youth, love's young dream is, no doubt, very charming, lovers, as a rule, having a small appetite; but to a man w

             
            

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