The Indian Bangle
The Indian Bangle by Fergus Hume is available here as the complete text, split into 1586 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Indian Bangle by Fergus Hume. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #56241.
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The Indian Bangle
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II "Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.,
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V David and Jonathan
- Chapter VI The Sealed Letter
- Chapter VII At the Manor House
- Chapter VIII A Queer Coincidence
- Chapter IX The Suspicions of Laurence Mallow
- Chapter X Margery
- Chapter XI Jephthah's Daughter
- Chapter XII "Twenty-One."
- Chapter XIII A Pre-Nuptial Contract
- Chapter XIV The New Maid
- Chapter XV "Wedding-Bells."
- Chapter XVI "The Brooch."
- Chapter XVII "Clara's Letter!"
- Chapter XVIII "More Mystery."
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI "One of Us."
- Chapter XXII "Madame Death-in-Life."
- Chapter XXIII "Another Link."
- Chapter XXIV "An Unexpected Meeting."
- Chapter XXV "The Light-Haired Man."
- Chapter XXVI "Man Proposes."
- Chapter XXVII "On the Long Trail."
- Chapter XXVIII "One Portion of the Conspiracy."
- Chapter XXIX The Sandal-Wood Chest
- Chapter XXX "Another Portion of the Conspiracy."
- Chapter XXXI "The Missing Man."
- Chapter XXXII "Monsieur Rouge Is Confidential."
- Chapter XXXIII "The Ishmaels of Humanity."
- Chapter XXXIV "An Unexpected Arrival."
- Chapter XXXV "The Penance of Margery."
- Chapter XXXVI
- Chapter XXXVII "The Treasures at Kikat."
- Chapter XXXVIII "Let the Dead Past Bury Its Dead."
- Chapter XXXIX "The Cipher Diary."
- Chapter XL "A Rogue's Memoirs."
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- Received
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- Previous
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- Epistle
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- Announced
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