Chapter I: Front Matter

THE MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY

BOOKS BY
H. BEDFORD-JONES

CONQUEST

CROSS AND THE HAMMER: A
TALE OF THE DAYS OF THE
VIKINGS

FLAMEHAIR THE SKALD: A
TALE OF THE DAYS OF
HARDREDE
GOLDEN GHOST

THE MESA TRAIL

THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY

UNDER FIRE

THE MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY

BY
H. BEDFORD-JONES

FRONTISPIECE
BY
JOHN NEWTON HOWITT

GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1921

COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. CARNIVAL 3

II. MASQUERS 21

III. THE BANDIT 38

IV. CALLERS 58

V. THE MASQUER UNMASKS 82

VI. CHACHERRE 107

VII. IN THE OPEN 125

VIII. COMUS 143

IX. ON THE BAYOU 169

X. MURDER 190

XI. THE GANGSTERS 209

XII. THE ULTIMATUM 228

XIII. THE COIN FALLS HEADS 249

XIV. CHACHERRE'S BUNDLE 262

XV. WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL 280

XVI. THE IMPREGNABILITY OF MR. FELL 299

XVII. MI-CARÊME 310

THE MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY

THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY