Copyright 1904 by G. Barrie & Sons
AN UNLOOKED-FOR INTRUDER
As Cornélie was about to draw the curtains aside, she stopped, fellback a step or two, turned pale and said: ... "It seems to me that Ihear someone breathing."
NOVELS
BY
Paul de Kock
VOLUME XII
THE WHITE HOUSE
THE JEFFERSON PRESS
BOSTON NEW YORK
Copyrighted, 1903-1904, by G. B. & Sons.
THE WHITE HOUSE
CONTENTS
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII
I
THREE YOUNG MEN
It was mid-July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five. The clockon the Treasury building had just struck four, and the clerks, hastilyclosing the drawers of their desks, replacing documents in theirrespective boxes and pens on their racks, lost no time in taking theirhats and laying aside the work of the State, to give all their attentionto private business or pleasure.
Amid the multitude of persons of all ag