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The narrative opens when a solicitor inspecting his accounts finds a cheque for 720 pounds payable to Edmund Gray that he cannot recall issuing. That unexplained payment triggers an inquiry into memory, identity, and a neurological condition hinted as central to events. As the plot unfolds, hidden pasts and mistaken identities emerge, leading to mysterious discoveries, family confrontations, legal complications, and the gradual unravelling of a web involving accomplices, a spectral sighting, and a final confession that resolves disputed loyalties and the true origins of the strange payment.

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Bell of St. Paul's.
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Master of the Mine.

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You Play Me False.

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Antonina.
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Queen of Hearts.
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Man and Wife.
Poor Miss Finch.
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The Frozen Deep.
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Law and the Lady.
Haunted Hotel.
The Fallen Leaves.
Jezebel's Daughter.
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Heart and Science.
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A Rogue's Life.
Blind Love.

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Paul Foster's Daughter.

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Hearts of Gold.

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The Fountain of Youth.

By JAMES DE MILLE.

A Castle in Spain.

By J. LEITH DERWENT.

Our Lady of Tears.
Circe's Lovers.

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Tracked to Doom.

By Mrs. ANNIE EDWARDES.

Archie Lovell.

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The New Mistress.

By PERCY FITZGERALD.

Fatal Zero.

By R. E. FRANCILLON.

Queen Cophetua.
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Pandurang Hari.

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The Capel Girls.

By CHARLES GIBBON.

Robin Gray.
Loving a Dream.
The Golden Shaft.
Of High Degree.
The Flower of the Forest.

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The Lost Heiress.
The Fossicker.

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Corinthia Marazion.

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Under the Greenwood Tree.

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A Waif of the Plains.
A Ward of the Golden Gate.
A Sappho of Green Springs.
Colonel Starbottle's Client.

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Ellice Quentin.
Sebastian Strome.
Dust.
Fortune's Fool.
Beatrix Randolph.
David Poindexter's Disappearance.
The Spectre of the Camera.

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Ivan de Biron.

By ISAAC HENDERSON.

Agatha Page.

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The Leaden Casket.
Self-Condemned.
That other Person.

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Fated to be Free.

By R. ASHE KING.

A Drawn Game.
"The Wearing of the Green."

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Patricia Kemball.
Under which Lord?
"My Love!"
Ione.
Paston Carew.
Sowing the Wind.
The Atonement of Leam Dundas.
The World Well Lost.

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Gideon Fleyce.

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Miss Misanthrope.
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Camiola.
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My Enemy's Daughter.
Dear Lady Disdain.
The Comet of a Season.

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Quaker Cousins.

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Coals of Fire.
Val Strange.
Hearts.
A Model Father.
Old Blazer's Hero.
By the Gate of the Sea.
A Bit of Human Nature.
First Person Singular.
Cynic Fortune.
The Way of the World.

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"Bail Up!"

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A Weird Gift.

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Chandos.
Under Two Flags.
Idalia.
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Puck.
Folle Farine.
A Dog of Flanders.
Pascarel.
Signa.
Princess Napraxine.
Two Little Wooden Shoes.
In a Winter City.
Ariadne.
Friendship.
Moths.
Ruffino.
Pipistrello.
A Village Commune.
Bimbi.
Wanda.
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Othmar.
In Maremma.
Syrlin.
Guilderoy.
Santa Barbara.

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Gentle and Simple.

By JAMES PAYN.

Lost Sir Massingberd.
Less Black than We're Painted.
A Confidential Agent.
A Grape from a Thorn.
In Peril and Privation.
The Mystery of Mirbridge.
The Canon's Ward.
Walter's Word.
By Proxy.
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Under One Roof.
From Exile.
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The Word and the Will.
Sunny Stories.

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Mrs. Lancaster's Rival.

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Miss Maxwell's Affections.

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The Double Marriage.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long.
The Cloister and the Hearth.
The Course of True Love.
The Autobiography of a Thief.
Put Yourself in his Place.
A Terrible Temptation.
Singleheart and Doubleface.
Good Stories of Men and other Animals.
Hard Cash.
Peg Woffington.
Christie Johnstone.
Griffith Gaunt.
Foul Play.
A Perilous Secret.
Wandering Heir.
A Woman-Hater.
A Simpleton.
Readiana.
The Jilt.

By Mrs. J. H. RIDDELL.

The Prince of Wales's Garden Party.
Weird Stories.

By F. W. ROBINSON.

Women are Strange.
The Hands of Justice.

By W. CLARK RUSSELL.

An Ocean Tragedy.
My Shipmate Louise.
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea.

By JOHN SAUNDERS.

Guy Waterman.
Two Dreamers.
Bound to the Wheel.
The Lion in the Path.

By KATHARINE SAUNDERS.

Margaret and Elizabeth.
Gideon's Rock.
The High Mills.
Heart Salvage.
Sebastian.

By LUKE SHARP.

In a Steamer Chair.

By HAWLEY SMART.

Without Love or Licence.

By R. A. STERNDALE.

The Afghan Knife.

By BERTHA THOMAS.

Proud Maisie.
The Violin-player.

By FRANCES E. TROLLOPE.

Like Ships upon the Sea.
Anne Furness.
Mabel's Progress.

By IVAN TURGENIEFF, &c.

Stories from Foreign Novelists.

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Frau Frohmann.
Marion Fay.
Kept in the Dark.
Land-Leaguers.
The Way We Live Now.
Mr. Scarborough's Family.

By C. C. FRASER-TYTLER.

Mistress Judith.

By SARAH TYTLER.

The Bride's Pass.
Noblesse Oblige.
Lady Bell.
Buried Diamonds.
The Blackhall Ghosts.

By MARK TWAIN.

The American Claimant.

By. J. S. WINTER.

A Soldier's Children.

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The Fellah.

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Carr of Carrlyon.
Confidences.

By MARY ALBERT.

Brooke Finchley's Daughter.

By Mrs. ALEXANDER.

Maid, Wife, or Widow?
Valerie's Fate.

By GRANT ALLEN.

Strange Stories.
Philistia.
Babylon.
The Devil's Die.
This Mortal Coil.
In all Shades.
The Beckoning Hand.
For Maimie's Sake.
Tents of Shem.
The Great Taboo.

By ALAN ST. AUBYN.

A Fellow of Trinity.

By Rev. S. BARING GOULD.