Chapter I: Front Matter

They were afraid, yet they knew they must go in.
(_Frontispiece_) (MISSING AT THE MARSHLANDS)

_The Arden Blake Mystery Series_

MISSING AT
MARSHLANDS

_By_
CLEO F. GARIS

A. L. BURT COMPANY
_Publishers_
New York Chicago

_The Arden Blake Mystery Series_

BY CLEO F. GARIS

The Orchard Secret
Mystery of Jockey Hollow
Missing at Marshlands

COPYRIGHT, 1934, BY
A. L. Burt Company

Missing At Marshlands

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY FRIEND
DOROTHY O’CONNOR

_Who saw the Czar’s snuffbox
and told me its tragic story._

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I A Stalled Car 9
II A Man, a Dog, and a Girl 19
III The Russian 29
IV A Girl and a Bracelet 42
V The Stranger 50
VI The Unwelcome Guest 56
VII A Noise in the Night 65
VIII Hard to Believe 72
IX The Snuffbox 78
X Beauty That Dazzled 85
XI Still They Come 92
XII A Friend in the Deep 98
XIII The Tragic Messenger 105
XIV Missing at Marshlands 110
XV Downhearted; Not Discouraged 115
XVI That Dark Woman 123
XVII Olga Makes Light of It 130
XVIII Reilly on the Case 136
XIX Tania Howls 142
XX Mrs. Landry Helps 147
XXI Melissa Has a Pin 157
XXII The Policewoman 164
XXIII On the Water Trail 170
XXIV The Man Arrives 178
XXV The Man in the Marsh 187
XXVI Melissa Again 192
XXVII Terry’s Tactics 199
XXVIII Driven Away 205
XXIX The Barking of Tania 219
XXX All Is Well 227