# The Spider

Author: Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55831

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Spider+Hume&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The exterior of The Athenian Club, Pall Mall, represents an ordinary twentieth century mansion, which it is; but within, the name is justified by a Græco-Roman architecture of vast spaces, marble floors, painted ceilings, and pillared walls, adapted, more or less successfully, to the chilly British climate. The various rooms are called by Latin names, and the use of these is rigidly enforced. Standing outside the mansion, you know that you are in London; enter, and you behold Athens--say, the abode of Alcibiades; listen, and scraps of speech suggest Imperial Rome. Thus, the tastes of all the members, whether old and pedantic, or young and frivolous, are consulted and gratified. Modern sla...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/5/index.md)
- [part I'm very glad. I always escape from Francis's society whenever I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spider-55831/chapters/9/index.md)