Miss Mephistopheles
Miss Mephistopheles by Fergus Hume is available here as the complete text, split into 765 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Miss Mephistopheles: A Novel (Sequel to Madame Midas.) by Fergus Hume. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55378.
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Miss Mephistopheles
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Keith Meets with an Adventure
- Chapter III Prince Carnival
- Chapter IV Lazarus
- Chapter V A Woman's Appeal
- Chapter VI The Annoyance of Hiram J. Fenton
- Chapter VII Mirth and Laughter
- Chapter VIII A Mysterious Affair
- Chapter IX An Unknown Benefactor
- Chapter X Naball Makes a Discovery
- Chapter XI What Naball Overheard
- Chapter XII Naball Tells a Story
- Chapter XIII The Gossip of Clubs
- Chapter XIV A Struggle for Fame
- Chapter XV The Russell Street Crime
- Chapter XVI The Inquest
- Chapter XVII A Council of Three
- Chapter XVIII Circumstantial Evidence
- Chapter XIX A Lovers' Meeting
- Chapter XX The Rivals
- Chapter XXI A First Night at the Bon-Bon
- Chapter XXII Eugénie _V_ Naball
- Chapter XXIII The Cypher
- Chapter XXIV What Kitty Knew
- Chapter XXV The Evidence of a Bank-Note
- Chapter XXVI On the Track
- Chapter XXVII Meg Proves Useful
- Chapter XXVIII Malton Makes a Discovery
- Chapter XXIX Light at Last
- Chapter XXX
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- Mephistopheles
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- Novel
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- Sequel
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- Madame
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