Chapter I: Front Matter

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The House of Strange Secrets

A DETECTIVE STORY

BY A. Eric Bayly

NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899 BY E. P. DUTTON & CO.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--THE STRANGE AFFAIR ON THE LONELY MOOR 1
II.--THE MAN THAT DISAPPEARED 9
III.--THE MYSTERY OF THE PADDED FOOTPRINTS 17
IV.--GOOD NEWS AND BAD 28
V.--SELENE'S STORY 33
VI.--THE FIRST ENCOUNTER 39
VII.--THE HAUNTED BARN AND ITS STRANGE INHABITANT 52
VIII.--THE SILENT HOUSE AND THE FOLKS THAT DWELT THERE 58
IX.--THE MAJOR'S MESSAGE AND HOW IT WAS DELIVERED 66
X.--THE AFFAIR OF THE BICYCLE 75
XI.--IN THE LION'S DEN 80
XII.--THE MAJOR REVEALS HIS SECRET 86
XIII.--THE HORRORS OF DURLEY DENE 95
XIV.--THE FIGURE IN THE MOONLIGHT 99
XV.--MAJOR JONES' ERRAND 106
XVI.--THE MAN FROM BURTON'S 116
XVII.--MR. POTTER'S SOLUTION 125
XVIII.--AN ASTOUNDING CONFESSION 130
XIX.--A TRUCE AND A PROMISE 139
XX.--MR. HORNCASTLE, FROM DARTMOOR 145
XXI.--MR. POTTER SHOWS HIS HAND 153
XXII.--WHOSE WAS THE WRITING? 162
XXIII.--THE MYSTERY OF THE MANSE BARN 170
XXIV.--THE FATE OF THE EAVESDROPPER 177
XXV.--IN THE OAK-PANELLED HALL 185
XXVI.--LIGHT IN DARK PLACES 191
XXVII.--THE SQUIRE'S STORY 201
XXVIII.--THE SQUIRE'S STORY (CONTINUED) 205
XXIX.--THE SQUIRE'S STORY (CONTINUED) 215
XXX.--THE SQUIRE'S STORY (CONCLUSION) 224
XXXI.--THE BEGINNING OF THE END 230
XXXII.--THE WIZARD'S MARSH 236
XXXIII.--A MAN FROM THE GRAVE 244
XXXIV.--SOLVING THE MYSTERY 249
XXXV.--THE LAST TWIST IN THE YARN 257