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Jack O' Judgment
Author: Edgar Wallace

JACK 0' JUDGMENT - CONTENTS C I-14P. AGE I.-THE KNAVE OF CLUBS . 7 l I.--JAC I 0 J UDGMEXT--11 IS CAR . I4 I I1.--TI-IE DEOOY . . - 24 I I EIASSON 28 I N TT-r I c JI. IGIS-TI ATES COURT 35 V.-STAFl OI D KISG IIESIGNS 42 1.11.---TiIE COL03 EI. COX DUCTS HIS GCSIN ESS . 45 1 111. --THE L13TEXER AT TIIE DOOR . 5.1 1 S . T f i E COLONEL S A 1 ETI13... more »CfIVE . 61 S.-TIIE GRE13Ii fII ILLOIOLIS . . 7 1 - COLOSEL AT SCOTLAXD YARD 7I I . I I-I L, I U R I I S I I I A I S . . g6 S . --SOLOJIOS COMES 13. iC I m I00 S IS. --THE COLONEL IS SIIOC IiED . 111 c c SS.-StVEi, L C X ACi S OUT . 113 5 CHAP XX1.-THE GHIDE OF DE-4TlI. SSI1.--MAISIE TELLS IiEli STORY SX1II.-THE GANG FUND m SXI.-PISTO GOES NORTH X. iV.-A PATRON 01 CIIARITY XXV1.-THE SOLDIELi V130 I OIdLO, T71 D XXVI1.-THE CAPTURE 01 JACK . XXVII1.--THE PASSING OF PIiILLOIJOLIS XX1. X.-TIiE VOICE IN THE 1 00 1 . XMS.-DIAMOKDS FOR TlIE EASE XXX 1.-THE VOICE AGAIS XXSI1.-LOLLIE GOES ,4l. AY . i r XIII.-WHETcE T1IE VOICE LIVED . Z XXIV.-CO SCIENCE h1OXEY . . XS V.-IN A BOX AT TIIE OKIIIECM X iXVI.-LOLLIE PROPOSES XXXVI1.-THE FALL OF PINTO . XNXVII1.-A USE FOR OLD FILMS XXX1X.-JACK 0 JUDCMESX REVEALED JACK 0. JUDGMENT CHAPTER I THE KNAVE OF CLUBS T HEY picked up the young man called Snow . Gregory from a Lambeth gutter, and he was dead before the policeman on point duty in Waterloo Road, who had heard the shots, came upon the scene. He had been shot in his tracks on a night of snow and storm and none saw the murder. When they got him to the mortuary and searched his clothes they found nothing except a little tin box of white powder which proved to be cocaine, and a playing card-the Jack of Clubs n His associates had called him Snow Gregory because he was a doper, and cocaine is invariably referred to as snow by all its votaries. He was a gambler too, and he had been associated with Colonel Dan Boundary in certain of his business enterprises. That was all. The colonel knew nothing of the young mans antecedents except that he had been an Oxford man who had come down in the world. The colonel added a few particulars designed, as it might seem to the impartial observer, to prove that he, the colonel, had ever been an uplifting quantity. This colonelcy was an honorary title which he held by custom rather than by law. There were people who said that Snow Gregory, in his more exalted moments, talked too much for the colonels comfort, but people were very ready to talk unkindly of the colonel, whose wealth was an offence and a shame. So they buried Snow Gregory, the unknown, and a jury of his fellow-countrymen returned a verdict of Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. And that was the end of a sordid tragedy, it seemed, until three months later there dawned upon Colonel Boundarys busy life a brand new and alarming factor. One morning there arrived at his palatial flat in Albemarle Place a letter. This he opened because it was marked Private and Personal. It was not a letter at all-as it proved-but a soiled and stained playing card, the Knave of Clubs. He looked at the thing in perplexity, for the fate of his erstwhile assistant had long since passed from his mind. Then he saw writing on the margin of the card, and twisting it sideways read - Nothing more ack-0 Judgment The colonel screwed up his tired eyes as if to shut out a vision. Faugh he said in disgust and dropped the pasteboard into his waste-paper basket. For he had seen a vision-a white face, unshaven and haggard, its lips parted in a little grin, the smile of Snow Gregory on the last time they had met. Later came other cards and unpleasant, not to say disconcerting happenings, and the colonel, taking counsel with himself, determined to kill two birds with one stone...

ISBN-13: 9781408626863
ISBN-10: 1408626861
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Kellock Robertson Press
Book Type: Paperback
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