



Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England




The Mysterious Mr. Miller
By William Le Queux
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London.
This edition dated 1906.

The Mysterious Mr Miller, by William Le Queux.

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THE MYSTERIOUS MR MILLER, BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX.

CHAPTER ONE.

A STRANGER IN SHEPHERD'S BUSH.

"Why!  Look! he's dead, doctor!"  I gasped, standing aghast.

The sudden change in the thin sallow face, the lack of expression in the
brilliant eyes, and the dropping of the jaw were sufficient to convince
me that the stranger's life had ebbed away.

The doctor bent, placed his hand upon the prostrate man's breast for a
moment, and then, straightening himself, he turned to me and answered
gravely:--

"Yes, Godfrey; it is as I feared from the first.  Nothing could save
him.  Remember what I told you this morning--it was simply a matter of
hours."

"He appears to have been a rather strong, athletic man," I remarked,
looking down upon the wan, furrowed face.

"Unusually so.  The disease, however, has thoroughly wrecked his
constitution.  He was addicted to the morphia habit of late."  And
pulling down the sheet he pointed to the marks of recent punctures upon
the dead man's forearm.

We were standing together in the small shabby bedroom of the
boarding-house wherein I lived in Granville Gardens, facing the
recreation ground close to Shepherd's Bush Railway Station.  The
stifling July day was at an end, and the narrow room was lit by the soft
hazy glow of the fast-fading London sunset.

Through the open window came the shouts of children at