Chapter I: Front Matter

By BURFORD DELANNOY

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_Author of "The Garden Court Murder" "The Missing Cyclist" Etc. Etc._

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R. F. FENNO & COMPANY 9 and 11 East Sixteenth Street, New York

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WARD LOCK & COMPANY, LONDON

Copyright, 1900, by R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE DENTIST'S IN FINSBURY SQUARE 7
II. WHAT WAS FOUND ON THE BODY 16
III. ON BOARD THE AMERICAN LINER 23
IV. THE CITY LAWYER AND THE CLIENT FROM THE WILD AND
WOOLY WEST 30
V. BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND QUEENSTOWN 38
VI. MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS 45
VII. THE NUMBERS OF THE MISSING NOTES 52
VIII. THE SEALED UP CABIN 61
IX. A WAITING WIFE'S DISCOVERY 68
X. HOW THE DEVIL TEMPTED HIM 76
XI. A LIFE FOR A LIFE 83
XII. FATHER AND CHILD--THE OLD STORY 91
XIII. LOVERS--MORE OF THE OLD STORY 98
XIV. THE METHOD IN SUSAN TODD'S MADNESS 105
XV. BOUND TO THE WHEEL 113
XVI. SUSAN TODD SEES A GHOST 120
XVII. A SICK BED CONFESSION 126
XVIII. A WIFE FOR REWARD 133
XIX. GERALD PUTS HIS NOSE TO THE TRAIL 140
XX. INSIDE THE LAWYER'S OFFICE 148
XXI. THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ART AND ARTFULNESS 156
XXII. THE HANDCUFFS PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART 163
XXIII. AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE DENTIST 171
XXIV. AN AMATEUR CARPENTER 178
XXV. A WOULD-BE SUICIDE 181
XXVI. GERALD WALKS INTO THE TRAP 195
XXVII. PECULIAR MESSENGERS 203
XXVIII. A PISTOL AND AN OPEN GRAVE 211
XXIX. THE NEXT MOVE IN THE GAME 218
XXX. AT THE DENTIST'S 226
XXXI. MOON BLINDNESS 234
XXXII. THE LOVERS MEET 241
XXXIII. THIEF! 249
XXXIV. A THEATRICAL MAKE-UP 254
XXXV. NOT A MAN TO STICK AT TRIFLES 262
XXXVI. ONCE MORE ON THE TRACK 270
XXXVII. THE LAWYER LIFTED INTO ANOTHER SPHERE 277
XXXVIII. MRS. DEPEW HOLDS THE REINS 284
XXXIX. MRS. DEPEW HAS THINGS HER OWN WAY 290