Chapter I: Front Matter

The Looker-On

A Romance of Journalistic London

BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX

AUTHOR OF
"THE SECRET OF THE SQUARE," "WHATSOEVER A
MAN SOWETH," "SINS OF THE CITY,"
ETC. ETC.

LONDON

F. V. White & Co., Limited
14 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C.

1908

_Copyright in the United States of America by
William Le Queux, 1907_

CONTENTS

I. "OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT"

II. CONCERNS THE CURIOUS AFFAIR AT BARNES

III. IN THE GLARE OF PUBLICITY

IV. CONTAINS SOME SURPRISES

V. REPEATS A MESSAGE TO PLYMOUTH

VI. AROUSES SOME SUSPICIONS

VII. IS MAINLY ABOUT DAISY MARVIN

VIII. SHOWS THE PULSE OF THE WORLD

IX. BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE _HERALD_

X. SHOWS A TIGHT CORNER

XI. THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC

XII. IS EVEN MORE MYSTERIOUS

XIII. IS A REVELATION

XIV. CONCERNS THE STRANGER

XV. THE HOUSE OF SHADOWS

XVI. WHAT THE TAPE REVEALED

XVII. CONTAINS MRS DAVIS'S STORY

XVIII. IN WHICH WE MAKE A DISCOVERY

XIX. IN WHICH ANOTHER DISCOVERY IS MADE

XX. THE PHOTOGRAPHER TELLS HIS STORY

XXI. REVEALS THE GULF

XXII. THE DOUBLE LIFE

XXIII. IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH

XXIV. SOME DISCOVERIES IN SCARBOROUGH

XXV. ONE FACT IS MADE CLEAR

XXVI. THE MYSTERIOUS MR STONOR

XXVII. THE STEPS OF THE STRANGER

XXVIII. REVEALS A CROOKED CIRCUMSTANCE

XXIX. IS DISTINCTLY CURIOUS

XXX. A NIGHT AT THE SAVAGE

XXXI. A SERVANT OF THE PUBLIC

XXXII. THE MYSTERIOUS M'SIEUR SMITH

XXXIII. THOSE WHO KNEW

XXXIV. FACE TO FACE

XXXV. DESCRIBES AN EXCITING CHASE

XXXVI. MORE MYSTERY!

XXXVII. THE PALACE THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH

XXXVIII. MY LOVE'S CONFESSION

XXXIX. TO THE UNKNOWN

XL. CONTAINS A GRAVE CHARGE

XLI. WHICH REVEALS THE TRUTH

THE LOOKER-ON