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Title: The Doings Of Raffles Haw

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Posting Date: March 11, 2009 [EBook #8394]
Release Date: June, 2005

Language: English

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THE DOINGS OF RAFFLES HAW

By Arthur Conan Doyle

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1. A DOUBLE ENIGMA

2. THE TENANT OF THE NEW HALL.

3. A HOUSE OF WONDERS.

4. FROM CLIME TO CLIME.

5. LAURA'S REQUEST

6. A STRANGE VISITOR

7. THE WORKINGS OF WEALTH.

8. A BILLIONAIRE'S PLANS.

9. A NEW DEPARTURE

10. THE GREAT SECRET

11. A CHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION.

12. A FAMILY JAR.

13. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE

14. THE SPREAD OF THE BLIGHT.

15. THE GREATER SECRET.

CHAPTER I. A DOUBLE ENIGMA.

"I'm afraid that he won't come," said Laura McIntyre, in a disconsolate
voice.

"Why not?"

"Oh, look at the weather; it is something too awful."

As she spoke a whirl of snow beat with a muffled patter against the cosy
red-curtained window, while a long blast of wind shrieked and whistled
through the branches of the great white-limbed elms which skirted the
garden.

Robert McIntyre rose from the sketch upon which he had been working, and
taking one of the lamps in his hand peered out into the darkness. The
long skeleton limbs of the bare trees tossed and quivered dimly amid the
whirling drift. His sister sat by the fire, her fancy-work in her lap,
and looked up at her brothers profile which showed against the brilliant
yellow light. It was a handsome face, young and fair and clear cut, with
wavy brown hair combed backwards and rippling down into that outward
curve at the ends which one associates with the artistic temperament.
There was refinement too in his slightly puckered eyes, his dainty
gold-rimmed _pince-nez_ glasses, and in the black velveteen coat which
caught the light so richly upon its shoulder. In his mouth only
there was something--a suspicion of coarseness, a possibility of
weakness--which in the eyes of some, and of his sister among them,
marred the grace an