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Chapter I The Man Who Died I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

CHAPTER ONE A Mission is Proposed I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram.

CHAPTER I THE MAN ON THE KIRKCAPLE SHORE I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man.

NOTE The earlier adventures of Richard Hannay, to which occasional reference is made in this narrative, are recounted in _The Thirty-Nine Steps_ and _Greenmantle_.

I NO-MAN'S-LAND I: THE SHIELING OF FARAWA It was with a light heart and a pleasing consciousness of holiday that I set out from the inn at Allermuir to tramp my fifteen miles into the unknown.

Contents From the Pentlands looking North and South I The Company of the Marjolaine Avignon 1759 II A Lucid Interval The Shorter Catechism (revised version) III The Lemnia...

CHAPTER I BEGINNING OF THE WILD-GOOSE CHASE It all started one afternoon, early in May, when I came out of the House of Commons with Tommy Deloraine.

CHAPTER I HOW A RETIRED PROVISION MERCHANT FELT THE IMPULSE OF SPRING 17 II OF MR. JOHN HERITAGE AND THE DIFFERENCE IN POINTS OF VIEW ...

CHAPTER I. HIGHTOWN UNDER SUNFELL When Biorn was a very little boy in his father's stead at Hightown he had a play of his own making for the long winter nights.

CHAPTER I EVENING IN GLENAVELIN From the heart of a great hill land Glenavelin stretches west and south to the wider Gled valley, where its stream joins with the greater water in its seaward cou...

Before me stretched a black heath, over which the mist blew in gusts, and through whose midst the road crept like an adder.

On the last day of May 1902 the signature at Pretoria of the conditions of peace brought to an end a war which had lasted for nearly three years, and had among other things destroyed a government, ...

When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled my fate.