Miss Vint Hears Voices Wanted—A Dead Man! Inspector Tokely is Emphatic Betty Siggs Dreams a Dream Shady ’un as a Moral Character Who Killed this Woman? Clara Finds a Lodging A Chase in the Dark Haunted Neptune to the Rescue Dr. Cripps is Incoherent Ogledon Plays his Last Card Dandy Chater Comes from the Grave A Race for a Life Going—Going—Gone! The Second Dandy Chater CHAPTER I WHEREIN THE QUICK AND THE DEAD MEET If there is one place, in the wide world, more dreary and disconsolate-looking than another, on a gusty evening in March, it is that part of Essex which lies some twenty miles to the north of the Thames, and is bordered nowhere, so far as the eye can reach, by anything but flat and desolate marshlands, and by swampy roads and fields. For there, all the contrary winds of Heaven seem to meet, to play a grand game of buffets with themselves, and everything else which rises an inch or two above the ground; there, the very sun, if he
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