The Firm of Girdlestone

A Romance of the Unromantic

1890

Arthur Conan Doyle

TO MY OLD FRIEND

PROFESSOR WILLIAM K. BURTON,

OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKYO,

WHO FIRST ENCOURAGED ME, YEARS AGO, TO PROCEED WITH

THIS LITTLE STORY,

I DESIRE AFFECTIONATELY TO

DEDICATE IT.

THE AUTHOR.

Preface

Chapter I - Mr. John Harston Keeps an Appointment.
Chapter II - Charity à La Mode.
Chapter III - Thomas Gilray Makes an Investment.
Chapter IV - Captain Hamilton Miggs of the “Black Eagle.”
Chapter V - Modern Athenians.
Chapter VI - A Rectorial Election.
Chapter VII - England Versus Scotland.
Chapter VIII - A First Professional.
Chapter IX - A Nasty Cropper
Chapter X - Dwellers in Bohemia.
Chapter XI - Senior and Junior.
Chapter XII - A Corner in Diamonds.
Chapter XIII - Shadow and Light.
Chapter XIV - A Slight Misunderstanding.
Chapter XV - An Addition to the House.
Chapter XVI - The First Step.
Chapter XVII - The Land of Diamonds.
Chapter XVIII - Major Tobias Clutterbuck Comes in for a Thousand Pounds.
Chapter XIX - News from the Urals.
Chapter XX - Mr. Hector O’Flaherty Finds Something in the Paper.
Chapter XXI - An Unexpected Blow.
Chapter XXII - Robbers and Robbed.
Chapter XXIII - A Momentous Resolution.
Chapter XXIV - A Dangerous Promise.
Chapter XXV - A Change of Front.
Chapter XXVI - Breaking Ground.
Chapter XXVII - Mrs. Scully of Morrison’s.
Chapter XXVIII - Back in Bohemia.
Chapter XXIX - The Great Dance at Morrison’s.
Chapter XXX - At the “Cock and Cowslip.”
Chapter XXXI - A Crisis at Eccleston Square.
Chapter XXXII - A Conversation in the Eccleston Square Library.
Chapter XXXIII - The Journey to the Priory.
Chapter XXXIV - The Man with the Camp-Stool.
Chapter XXXV - A Talk on the Lawn.
Chapter XXXVI - The Incident of the Corridor.
Chapter XXXVII - A Chase and a Brawl.
Chapter XXXVIII - Girdlestone Sends for the Doctor.
Chapter XXXIX - A Gleam of Light.
Chapter XL - The Major Has a Letter.
Chapter XLI - The Clouds Grow Darker.
Chapter XLII - The Three Faces at the Window.
Chapter XLIII - The Bait on the Hook.
Chapter XLIV - The Shadow of Death.
Chapter XLV - The Invasion of Hampshire.
Chapter XLVI - A Midnight Cruise.
Chapter XLVII - Law and Order.
Chapter XLVIII - Captain Hamilton Miggs Sees a Vision.
Chapter XLIX - A Voyage in a Coffin Ship.
Chapter L - Winds Up the Thread and Ties Two Knots at the End.

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