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قراءة كتاب The Monk of Hambleton
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THE MONK OF HAMBLETON
By
ARMSTRONG LIVINGSTON
NEW YORK
RAE D. HENKLE CO. Inc. Publishers
1928
COPYRIGHT, 1928,
By RAE D. HENKLE Co. INC.
Manufactured in the United States
THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | SAYING IT WITH FRUIT |
| II. | THE HEAD OF THE TRAIL |
| III. | A WARNING |
| IV. | THE LEGEND OF THE MONK |
| V. | MISS LUCY'S MAN |
| VI. | AN AUNT IN NEED |
| VII. | OUT OF THE PAST |
| VIII. | TWO VICTIMS OF THEFT |
| IX. | SIMON SEEKS ADVICE |
| X. | CREIGHTON TAKES THE CASE |
| XI. | CHECKERS AND CHICANE |
| XII. | STARLIGHT ON STEEL |
| XIII. | A DEDUCTION OR TWO |
| XIV. | LUCY VARR |
| XV. | TREASURE TROVE |
| XVI. | A WOMAN OF NOTE |
| XVII. | AN ARREST Is MADE |
| XVIII. | SOME OLD MEN ARE OUT |
| XIX. | AMONG THOSE PRESENT |
| XX. | H. ANTEUS KRECH |
| XXI. | TWILIGHT |
| XXII. | A CRY IN THE NIGHT |
| XXIII. | THE DARKEST HOUR |
| XXIV. | BEYOND THE STARS |
THE MONK OF HAMBLETON
I: Saying It With Fruit
The weather-beaten buildings that comprised the plant of the Varr and Bolt tannery occupied a scant five acres of ground a short half-mile from the eastern edge of the village of Hambleton. They were of old-type brick construction, dingy without and gloomy within, and no one unacquainted with the facts could have guessed from their dilapidated and defected exteriors that they represented a sound and thriving business. It was typical of Simon Varr, that outward air of shabbiness and neglect; it was said of him that he knew how