The White Lie - free ebook by William Le Queux

WILLIAM LE QUEUX

Author of “The Temptress,” “In White Raiment,” “The Room of Secrets,” etc. ...

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IS MAINLY MYSTERIOUS.

“A woman—perhaps?” “Who knows! Poor Dick Harborne was certainly a man of secrets, and of many adventures.” “Well, it certainly is a most mysterious affair. You, my dear Barclay, appear to be the last person to have spoken to him.” “Apparently I was,” replied Lieutenant Noel Barclay, of the Naval Flying Corps, a tall, slim, good-looking, clean-shaven man in aviator’s garb, and wearing a thick woollen muffler and a brown leather cap with rolls at the ears, as he walked one August afternoon up the

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CONCERNS A PRETTY STRANGER.

A short, puffy, red-faced man in grey flannels went past. It was Sir Hubert Atherton, of Overstrand—that little place declared to be the richest village in all England—and Francis Goring, recognising him, bade a hurried farewell to his naval friend, and with a hasty word of thanks to the German, went out. The naval airman and the German were left alone. Again the round-faced cable engineer pulled over the double-throw switch, examined the tiny point of light upon the gauge, and registered its ex

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DESCRIBES TWO INQUIRIES.

The fatal accident to Lieutenant Noel Barclay caused a wave of sympathy throughout the country. As a daring and experienced aviator he was well known. He had assisted in the foundation of the Naval Flying School at Eastchurch, and had been the first aviator to fly from land and greet the King on the occasion of a great review off Weymouth. Many splendid feats of airmanship had he accomplished, flying from Paris to London on three occasions, and going far out to sea and back, scouting on one or o

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DESCRIBES A TORN CARD.

“The Norfolk Mystery,” as it was termed by the sensational journalists and Press-photographers, was but a nine days’ wonder, as, indeed, is every modern murder mystery. It provided material for the sensational section of the Press for a full week; a hundred theories were advanced, and the police started out upon a dozen or more false scents, but all to no purpose. Therefore the public curiosity quickly died down, and within ten days or so the affair was forgotten amid the hundred and one other “

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SECRETS OF STATE.

The right honourable the Earl of Bracondale, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, crossed his big, business-like library at Bracondale Hall, near Torquay, and stood upon the Turkey hearthrug ready to receive his visitor. Beneath the red-shaded lamplight he presented a handsome picture, a tall, well-built man of refined elegance, upon whom the cares of State weighed rather heavily. His age was about forty-three, though, in his well-cut evening clothes, he looked much yo

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THE SAFE-BREAKERS.

The day had been hot and stifling in London—one of those blazing days when the tar on the roadway perfumes the air, the dry pavements reflect back the heat into one’s face, and the straw-hatted Metropolis—or the portion of it that is still in town—gasps and longs for the country or the sea. The warm weather was nearly at an end, and most holiday-makers were back again. London’s workers had had their annual fortnight long ago, and had nearly forgotten it, and now only principals were away golfing

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THE DOWNWARD PATH.

A year had gone by. Since that memorable night when Ansell and Carlier had so narrowly escaped capture in Bond Street, and had been compelled to fly and leave their booty behind, things had gone badly with both of them. With Bonnemain executed, and their other companions in penal servitude at Cayenne, a cloud of misfortune seemed to have settled upon them. Of the tragedy on the Norwich road no more had been heard. The police had relinquished their inquiries, the affair had been placed upon the l

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REVEALS THE GRIM TRUTH.

Though Ralph Ansell’s clean-shaven face was strong, and his eyes keen and searching, in the dress he wore he presented anything but the appearance of the gentleman he did when, twelve months before, he had lived in the cosy little bachelor flat in Shaftesbury Avenue. His clothes were black, striped with grey, the coat edged with braid in the foreign manner, his neck was encircled by a soft collar tied with a loose, black cravat. His waistcoat was open, displaying his soft, white shirt and the le

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IN THE NIGHT.

Not until several hours afterwards did Jean regain consciousness. When slowly she opened her eyes and gazed wonderingly about the silent room, she found herself lying in a heap upon the floor, a terrible throbbing across her brow and a lump in her throat. Gradually she recollected the horror of that half-hour before she had fainted, and slowly she raised herself and tottered to a chair. Upon the table stood the empty bottle from which Ralph and Adolphe had drunk glass after glass of red wine, be

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HONOUR AMONG THIEVES.

They ascended the broad, dark staircase noiselessly and crept along to a door which Fil-en-Quatre opened cautiously, when they found themselves in the big salon, a spacious, luxuriantly-furnished room, where many of the notables of Paris, both social and political, were wont to assemble. Society was in ignorance of the true métier of this wealthy Belgian, and as he entertained lavishly upon the money secretly supplied to him from Berlin, he was accepted at his own valuation, and was highly popul

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THE VOW.

For a second, pale with alarm, Ralph Ansell glanced around the room. Suddenly an idea suggested itself. He was always resourceful. Next moment he dashed across to the door and locked it, afterwards rushing to the door which led into the bedroom—the room in which his friend was bathing his wound. There was a bolt upon the door, and this he slipped, thus imprisoning the man who was, as yet, unconscious of danger. Then, crossing to where Adolphe’s jacket hung, he quickly drew out the twenty-five th

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THE FATE OF “THE AMERICAN.”

“Monsieur,” said Carlier, in a low, confidential voice, when they were alone, “though I may be a thief, and under arrest, I am still a son of France, am I not?” “I suppose so,” replied the commissary, rather puzzled. “Well,” said the man before him, “if you keep observation upon the Baron de Rycker, you will find that what he has lost he well deserved to lose.” “What do you mean?” “I mean that the Baron is a spy—a secret agent of Germany.” The commissary looked at him sharply, and asked: “How do

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SISTERS IN SILENCE.

Just before eleven o’clock on the following morning two sisters of the Order of Saint Agnes, one of the religious Orders which devote themselves to nursing the poor, were passing through the Tuileries Gardens, sombre figures in their ample plain, black habits, black head-dresses, and deep, white collars, their hands beneath their gowns and gaze downturned, when one of them chanced to note the frail, pathetic little figure of a woman resting upon one of the seats. It was Jean Ansell. Worn and wea

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JEAN LEARNS THE TRUTH.

Months—months of a quiet, peaceful, uneventful life—went by, and Jean had become even more popular among the English sisters than she had been in Paris. Though her life had so entirely changed, and she had naught to worry her, not a thought nor a care beyond her religious duties and her nursing, in which she was now growing proficient, she would sometimes sit and think over her brief married life, and become filled by wonder. Where was her husband? Where, too, was the low-born thief who had take

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HIS LORDSHIP’S VISITOR.

The two doctors, summoned by telephone from Torquay, stood beside Lord Bracondale’s bed, and after careful examination and long consultation, grew very grave. His lordship had been carried unconscious to the park and upstairs into his own tastefully-furnished room, where he still remained motionless and senseless, though two hours had now passed. In addition to severe contusions, his shoulder was badly dislocated, and it was also feared that he had suffered severe internal injury through being t

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JEAN HAS A SURPRISE.

Jean, thus dismissed, descended to the library, where, across the dark crimson carpet, the last rays of the gorgeous sunset slanted in through the high windows in which were set the armorial bearings of the dead-and-gone Bracondales in stained-glass escutcheons. She crossed the great sombre apartment and stood gazing through the diamond panes away over the level green of the broad park to where the sea lay bathed in the golden light of the dying day. Her eyes were fixed vacantly into space. She

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THE DARKENING HORIZON.

“Well, nurse, I hardly expected that,” he said, reprovingly, his serious eyes fixed upon hers. Jean turned scarlet, and then admitted, as she stood with her back to the writing table: “I saw the photograph in your despatch-box, and it attracted me. Then I saw those papers.” “And they seem to have greatly interested you, nurse—eh?” Darnborough remarked. “A woman is always interested in what does not concern her,” she replied with a forced smile. “Well, forgive me for saying so, but I consider it

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LORD BRACONDALE’S CONFESSION.

“What!” he cried, with a look of dismay upon his pale face. “Are you really leaving, nurse?” “Yes, Lord Bracondale. I have already sent my things back to the convent. I have come to wish you good-bye.” “To wish me good-bye!” he echoed blankly, looking her straight in the face. “How can I ever thank you—how can I ever repay you for all your kindness, care, and patience with me? Sir Evered says that I owe my life to your good nursing.” She smiled. “I think Sir Evered is merely paying me an undeser

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THE GARDEN OF LOVE.

Six years later. The years had gone by—happy, blissful years, during which the Countess of Bracondale had become a popular society and political hostess. At Bracondale, and in Scotland, the Earl and his wife had on three occasions entertained the Sovereign at shooting-parties, and no social function was complete without the handsome, half-French Lady Bracondale. After her marriage, though she had no ambition to enter that wild world of unrest which we call modern society, she realised that, in o

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CROOKED CONFIDENCES.

About noon on the same day which Jean and her husband spent so happily together by the Devon sea, two men of about thirty-five met in the cosy little American bar of a well-known London hotel. Both were wealthy Americans, smartly dressed in summer tweeds, and wore soft felt hats of American shape. One, a tall, thin, hard-faced man, who had been drinking a cocktail and chatting with the barmaid while awaiting his friend, turned as the other entered, and in his pronounced American accent exclaimed

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THE GREEN TABLE.

One afternoon a fortnight later Ralph Ansell, well dressed, and posing as usual as a wealthy American, who had lived for many years in France, stood at the window of his room in the expensive Palace Hotel at Trouville, gazing upon the sunny plage , with its boarded promenade placed on the wide stretch of yellow sand. In the sunshine there were many bathers in remarkable costumes, enjoying a dip in the blue sea, while the crowd of promenaders in summer clothes passed up and down. The season was a

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DISCLOSES A SCHEME.

At noon next day, while Ansell was lying lazily in bed in the Palace Hotel reading the Matin , a page entered with a letter. He tore it open, and found that it was dated from the railway buffet at Calais-Maritime, and read: “ Dear Ralph ,—Impossible to send oof. Lady Michelcoombe squeezed dry. Husband knows. So lie low.— Ted .” He crushed the letter in his hand with an imprecation. His mine of wealth had suddenly become exhausted. From the address it was plain that Ted Patten was flying from Eng

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THE FALLING SHADOW.

The country château of the Earl of Bracondale, though modestly named the Villa Monplaisir, stood on the road to Fécamp amid the pines, about half a mile from the sea, at St. Addresse, the new seaside suburb of Havre. St. Addresse is, perhaps, not so fashionable as Etretat or Yport, being quieter and more restful, yet with excellent sea-bathing. Along the broad plage are numerous summer villas, with quaint gabled roofs and small pointed towers in the French style—houses occupied in the season mos

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THE BLOW.

With easy, leisurely gait, the man in the grey hat strode along the sands towards the rocks behind which the Countess and the governess had disappeared. Upon his mobile lips played an evil, triumphant smile, in his keen eyes a sharp, sinister look as he went forward, his hands thrust carelessly into his jacket pocket. His eyes were set searchingly upon the grey rocks before him, when suddenly he saw in the distance Miss Oliver and little Enid walking together. Therefore he knew that Lady Bracond

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TO PAY THE PRICE.

“Well?” asked Ansell, looking at his wife with a distinctly evil grin. “Well?” she answered blankly, for want of something else to say. “What will you give me for this letter?” he asked, carefully replacing it in his wallet and transferring it to his pocket with an air of supreme satisfaction. “I have nothing to give, Ralph.” “But you can find something quite easily,” he urged, with mock politeness. “Your ladyship must control a bit of cash-money. Remember, I’ve already made enquiries, and I kno

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A CHILD’S QUESTION.

At luncheon Jean met her husband, but so agitated was she that she scarce dare raise her eyes to his. Before entering the dining-room where Bracondale awaited her she halted at the door, and with a strenuous effort calmed herself. Then she went forward with a forced smile upon her lips, though her cheeks were pale and she knew that her hand trembled. His lordship had spent a strenuous morning with the papers Martin had brought from the Foreign Office. At least two of our Ambassadors to the Power

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THE INTRUDER.

That afternoon Jean remained in her room in a fierce fever of anxiety, while Bracondale drove his car along the winding, shady road to Yvetot, and home by St. Valery-en-Caux, and the sea-road which commences at Fécamp. Did he suspect? she wondered. She could not help feeling mortified that the child should have made that unfortunate remark. She felt also that her excuse was a lame one. Did he really believe her story? From the steel safe in her daintily-furnished room, with its silken upholstery

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THE CLOSED BOX.

Hardly had the sound of the silvery bells died away when a second figure scaled the balcony, and, seeing the light over the top of the curtain, as arranged, he placed his hand upon the long glass door and slowly opened it. He drew aside the curtain slightly to ascertain if Jean were there awaiting him, and, seeing her, he entered boldly. Ralph was dressed just as he had been in the morning, only he wore yellow lisle-thread gloves, so as to conceal his finger-prints, which, alas! were too well kn

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DEADLY PERIL.

Ralph Ansell made a sudden dash at his wife, gripping her by the throat with his gloved hands. She staggered to the table, and he bent her backwards across it. His evil face was distorted by a look of murderous hatred, his big eyes started from their sockets in his wild frenzy of anger. “Where are those pearls?” he demanded. “Speak! Give them to me at once, or, by Heaven, I’ll strangle you!” “I—I don’t know,” she managed to gasp. “They were in there. I—I—I thought they were there.” “You liar! Yo

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THE WHITE LIE.

For a few seconds Jean stood motionless, staring at the lifeless body of her husband, who lay with face upturned, the evil eyes closed, the hands listless by his sides. His head was towards the window, close to a small gilt settee, his feet towards the door. She stood with her eyes full of horror, fixed upon the white, dead face. In that dread moment a veritable lifetime of despair swept through her fevered brain. The servants, with hushed, terrified voices, were searching the rooms on the groun

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THE END.

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EDEN PHILLPOTTS

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WILLIAM LE QUEUX

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E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

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PAUL TRENT

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LOUIS TRACY

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HEADON HILL

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HAROLD BINDLOSS

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GUY BOOTHBY

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ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT

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BERTRAM MITFORD

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JOSEPH HOCKING

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MARIE CONNOR LEIGHTON

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EDGAR WALLACE

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LINDSAY RUSSELL

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SILAS K. HOCKING

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FERGUS HUME

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ALICE AND CLAUDE ASKEW

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