Transcriber's Notes:
1. Original text provided by Walter Moore for Project Gutenberg Australia.
https://gutenberg.org.au/ebooks17/1700671h.html
2. Publication date is 1891 per British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books page
491—https://books.google.com/books?id=_5ghAQAAMAAJ&pg
Monsieur Judas
A Paradox
by
Fergus Hume
London:
Spencer Blackett
[1891]
CONTENTS | |
| CHAPTER. | |
| [1.] | The Jarlchester Mystery |
| [2.] | A Curious Coincidence |
| [3.] | Purely theoretical |
| [4.] | The Evidence of the Chemist's Assistant |
| [5.] | Dr. Japix Speaks |
| [6.] | Monsieur Judas is Confidential |
| [7.] | An Unwilling Bride |
| [8.] | Mr. Spolger Tells a Story |
| [9.] | A Terrible Suspicion |
| [10.] | The Missing Letters |
| [11.] | No Smoke Without Fire |
| [12.] | The Spolger Soother |
| [13.] | The Craft of Monsieur Judas |
| [14.] | Who is Guilty? |
| [15.] | Monsieur Judas at Bay |
| [16.] | The Man Who Loved Her |
| [17.] | The Guessing of the Riddle |
| [18.] | How it was Done |
| [19.] | Mr. Fanks Finishes the Case |
[Chapter 1]
The Jarlchester Mystery
Not an important place by any means, this sleepy little town lying at the foot of a low range of undulating hills, beside a slow-flowing river. A square-towered church of Norman architecture, very ancient and very grim; one principal narrow street, somewhat crooked in its course; other streets, narrower and more crooked, leading off on the one side to the sheltering hills, and on the other down to the muddy stream. Market-place octagonal in shape, with a dilapidated stone cross of the Plantagenet period in the centre; squat stone bridge, with massive piers, across the sullen gray waters; on the farther shore a few red-roofed farmhouses; beyond, fertile pastoral lands and the dim outline of distant hills.