An Artist in Crime. Ottolengui Rodrigues

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I.

       A GENTLEMAN THINKS HE CAN COMMIT A CRIME AND ESCAPE DETECTION.

       CHAPTER II.

       A DARING AND SUCCESSFUL TRAIN ROBBERY.

       CHAPTER III.

       MR. BARNES DISCOVERS AN ARTISTIC MURDER.

       CHAPTER IV.

       DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

       CHAPTER V.

       THE SEVENTH BUTTON.

       CHAPTER VI.

       MR. BARNES'S TRAP.

       CHAPTER VII.

       MR. RANDOLPH HAS A FIGHT WITH HIS CONSCIENCE.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       LUCETTE.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE DIARY OF A DETECTIVE.

       CHAPTER X.

       ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.

       CHAPTER XI.

       MR. BARNES RECEIVES SEVERAL LETTERS.

       CHAPTER XII.

       THE HISTORY OF THE RUBY.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       MR. BARNES GOES SOUTH.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       AN INTERRUPTED WEDDING.

       CHAPTER XV.

       MR. MITCHEL EXPLAINS A FEW THINGS.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       MR. BARNES DISCOVERS A VALUABLE CLUE.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       A NEW YEAR'S DINNER PARTY.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       MR. BARNES'S NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

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A GENTLEMAN THINKS HE CAN COMMIT A CRIME AND ESCAPE DETECTION.

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      "Jack Barnes never gets left, you bet."

      "That was a close call, though," replied the Pullman porter who had given Mr. Barnes a helping hand, in his desperate effort to board the midnight express as it rolled out of Boston. "I wouldn't advise you to jump on moving trains often."

      "Thank you for your good advice, and for your assistance. Here's a quarter for you. Show me to my section, I am nearly dead, I am so tired."

      "Upper ten, right this way, sir. It is all ready for you to turn in."

      When Mr. Barnes entered the coach, no one was in sight. If there were other passengers, they were abed. A few minutes later, he himself was patting two little bags of feathers, and placing one atop of the other in a vain attempt to make them serve as one pillow. He had told the porter that he was tired, and this was so true that he should have fallen asleep quickly. Instead, his brain seemed specially active, and sleep impossible.

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