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Title: The White Lie

Author: William Le Queux

Release Date: June 20, 2009 [EBook #29173]

Language: English

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THE WHITE
LIE

BY

WILLIAM LE QUEUX

_Author of "The Temptress," "In White Raiment,"
"The Room of Secrets," etc._

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO
1915

[Illustration: "He had taken her small, white hand in his, and for a
moment he stood mute before her, overcome with gratitude." (Chapter
XVIII.) [_Frontispiece_]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--IS MAINLY MYSTERIOUS 7

II.--CONCERNS A PRETTY STRANGER 19

III.--DESCRIBES TWO INQUIRIES 34

IV.--DESCRIBES A TORN CARD 45

V.--SECRETS OF STATE 56

VI.--THE SAFE BREAKERS 67

VII.--THE DOWNWARD PATH 78

VIII.--REVEALS THE GRIM TRUTH 88

IX.--IN THE NIGHT 99

X.--HONOUR AMONG THIEVES 108

XI.--THE VOW 119

XII.--THE FATE OF "THE AMERICAN" 130

XIII.--SISTERS IN SILENCE 139

XIV.--JEAN LEARNS THE TRUTH 149

XV.--HIS LORDSHIP'S VISITOR 159

XVI.--JEAN HAS A SURPRISE 169

XVII.--THE DARKENING HORIZON 178

XVIII.--LORD BRACONDALE'S CONFESSION 188

XIX.--THE GARDEN OF LOVE 197

XX.--CROOKED CONFIDENCES 206