Chapter XX: The Ruling Passion

BETTY CARTER, too unhappy to keep to her room, where she had found bed intolerable after recovering from her faint, was the first to hear Roberts' frantic cries for mercy as Trenholm got him upon his feet and half dragged, half lifted his prisoner into a chair. She stood aghast in the doorway of Mrs. Nash's bedroom until pushed further inside by Alan Mason and Doctor Nash, who had paused to pick up a lighted lamp and carried it with him. Mrs. Nash, leaning heavily on Miriam's arm, was likewise not slow in reaching her room, while Martha was only restrained from racing upstairs also by a terrified Anna, whose detaining clutch she could not loosen.

"Good God!" Alan dashed to Trenholm's side as Roberts, his paroxysm over, sank weakly back in his chair and covered his face with his manacled hands. "What is the meaning of this, Guy?"

"Doctor Roberts murdered Paul Abbott," stated Trenholm, and his announcement created a profound sensation.

Mrs. Nash dropped into the nearest seat, for once bereft of speech, while Alan, his face transfigured, stumbled over to Betty, and kneeling, pressed her hand to his lips.

"Betty, my darling!" he exclaimed incoherently. "I knew that you were here on Monday night, and then you denied your visit. Corbin told me that you had bribed him into giving up your bloodstained scarf. God forgive me! I was afraid that you had killed Paul."

"Do not reproach yourself too much," she said, and her soft, clear voice held its old accustomed thrill. Unmindful of the presence of the others, she drew him to his feet and his arms encircled her. "I did you a greater wrong, Alan, when I married Paul, while my heart was given to you."

"But you did not marry Paul--you married me," declared Alan, and but for his supporting arm Betty would have fallen.

"You--she married you!" Mrs. Nash was getting her fill of excitement. With eyes half starting from her head, she gazed at her niece and Alan. "You--Alan"--while her husband feebly echoed her words.

"Yes"--facing their concentrated regard with head thrown back, his face alight with hope and love, Alan's voice rang out clearly. "Paul sent for me and I spent Monday morning with him. Just before I left came your telegram, Betty, saying that you and Nash were on your way here and that you would marry him. It was a frightful shock, and for hours I wandered about the countryside, keeping out of people's way. I determined to see Paul again and tell him of my passionate love for you, Betty--" he sighed. "I must have been a bit mad--"

Betty pressed his hand. "Go on," she begged; "don't stop."

"I reached here after midnight and knocked on the side door, but could not arouse Corbin," continued Alan. "Paul and I had often entered the house in the old days when he had forgotten his doorkey, by climbing up to the veranda roof and entering a window of his room. As I reached his window, which was conveniently open, I heard the front door bell ring loudly. I judged it was Betty arriving with Doctor Nash and, pausing to take off my muddy shoes and overcoat, I left them outside on the roof, and then dropped inside the bedroom and rushed over to speak to Paul. The bed was empty."

"Great heavens!" Miriam stared, astounded, at Alan. "Where was Mr. Abbott?"

"I don't know," admitted Alan. "At the time I supposed he was out in the hall, as I could hear voices. When they came closer I climbed into the empty bed, to avoid being seen, and pulled the bedclothes up over me. I couldn't face Betty and Paul in their, what I supposed to be, hour of happiness. I was horrified when Betty and Nash came directly into the bedroom, and I suddenly realized that they took me for Paul."

"Were you wearing a false beard?" asked Trenholm.

"No, not a false one. I had let my beard grow for the past two weeks," explained Alan, "and shaved it off on Tuesday morning. To go back to the scene in the bedroom--the lamp had gone out, and except for the firelight the room was dark, and I prayed that Betty would leave without recognizing me. Before I could collect my senses, Doctor Nash read the marriage service--"

"And you made the responses?"

"Yes; the doctor prompted me." Alan flushed hotly, then paled. "I think I was mad that night. My voice is like Paul's."

"It was your greatest point of resemblance," commented Trenholm, "and the recollection of it finally gave me the key to the situation."

Alan turned to Miriam and spoke with honest contrition. "I didn't know that Paul had a nurse," he said. "You weren't here in the morning. I was still lying in Paul's bed, trying dazedly to plan something--anything--when I heard some one return and walk swiftly to the bed. I heard your outcry and the sound of your fall, and," in shame-faced honesty, "I bolted out of the window, gathered up my hat, coat and shoes, and fled."

"Just a moment," broke in Trenholm. "How about the ring you gave Miss Carter?"

Alan eyed him in surprise. "Oh, the ring?" he echoed. "Paul gave it to me Monday morning--that was why I happened to have it about me."

"And why did Paul give you a ring which he valued with almost superstitious fervor?" inquired Trenholm.

"It wasn't his original ring, but an exact replica which, Paul told me on Monday, he had had made for me. The original ring was a gold coin of the First century of the Christian era and belonged to my grandfather, another Alan Mason--"

"The suicide?"

Alan winced slightly as he bowed. "I don't know Paul's motive in having the ring copied for me--he often did freakish, unaccountable things."

His remarks were checked by an exclamation from Roberts, who had regained some semblance of self-control while listening to Alan.

"There was no accounting for what Paul would do," he stated, and all eyes turned to him, partly in curiosity, but more in unconcealed horror. "I may as well make my confession now as later," he sighed. "After I left Abbott's Lodge I motored to Upper Marlboro, deciding, as it was such a bad night, that I would remain at the hotel. It was before midnight when Corbin came in and told me that a letter had come that day from Canada from Zybinn and that he had taken it, with other papers, to the room Paul used as a sitting room. I gave Corbin his customary bribe--"

"Cocaine," interposed Miriam quickly, and Roberts nodded.

"I took Corbin's key to the front door," he went on, speaking with more of an effort, "and came back to find the letter which," turning with a scowl to Trenholm, "with your infernal astuteness, you divined bore a stamp code. You planted that letter and this trap--"

"I did," admitted Trenholm quietly. "I realized that the thirteenth letter had not been read either by Paul or the person for whom the code was intended. Knowing that attempts had been made to steal something from this room, I judged that the letter had been lost here, and so"--with a quiet smile at Mrs. Nash--"I arranged to have the room vacated for an hour or two. I knew whoever would attempt to steal that letter had killed Paul."

"But why?" demanded Doctor Nash.

"Because the stamp code tells where Paul had secreted the Paltoff diamond."

"It does!" Roberts was on his feet; his features distorted. "Good God! to think that I failed by so short a margin."

"Sit down!" directed Trenholm, with a significant pressure on the physician's shoulder. "What did you do, Roberts, when you reached Abbott's Lodge on Monday night?"

"I stole softly up here." Roberts moistened his parched lips. "I found the letter which Corbin had placed on the table and took up the nut pick, intending to open the envelope, take out the letter and leave it, and study the stamp code at my leisure at the hotel. A noise at my elbow caused me to glance around--Paul was standing at my side."

"Well--what next?" prompted Trenholm, as Roberts ceased speaking.

"My face must have betrayed me," he continued, a second later. "Paul's unexpected appearance shocked me out of my self-control. He turned, I suppose to call for help, and I drove the nut pick into his back."

There was a pause which none cared to break. Roberts wiped some perspiration from his forehead and then spoke more rapidly.

"I stood gazing down at the dead man, for I had turned out the lamp which I had lighted only a second before, and waited in the dark, my brain whirling. Paul had left the door partly open and I not only heard but saw Betty and Nash and Miss Ward enter Paul's bedroom. Every instant I expected to hear an outcry when they discovered Paul was not in the bed. The suspense was something frightful"--his voice shook, and he steadied it with an effort. "Peering out from behind the door I saw Nash and Betty leave, and Miss Ward return to Paul's bedroom. There followed a slight cry, a heavy fall, and then silence. I waited for a second or two, then crept across the hall and into the bedroom. Miss Ward was lying in a faint on the floor, and Paul's bed was empty."

"So, fearing she would revive too soon, you chloroformed her and carried Paul's dead body into the room and put it into his bed," completed Trenholm, as Roberts broke down, unable to go on. "How did you lose the letter?"

"I don't know--it is the one confused incident of the night," replied Roberts, after some hesitation. "The letter must have flown out of my hand as I struck at Paul." Roberts sighed heavily. "It happened that Paul fell on some soiled sheets which Martha had thrown on the floor, intending to take away the next morning. I used the sheets and a woman's scarf to staunch the flow of blood and gave them, with my driving gloves, which I had not removed, to Corbin to destroy. There was nothing to indicate that Paul had been in this bedroom, nothing to link me with the crime." Roberts sighed again. "Then an overwhelming terror and an unspeakable horror of what I had done drove me out of the house and I did not come again into this bedroom to make a search for the letter. The next morning Alan and Trenholm and the coroner gave me no time alone, and then came Mrs. Nash and she was put in here--and with her awake in the daytime and Miss Ward on duty at night"--Roberts' gesture was eloquent as he looked at Trenholm. "Well, you beat me. But I'd like to know where you found the letter and how you discovered the code."

"Miss Ward did both," replied Trenholm as they looked at him. "She found the letter in that chair," pointing to it, "tucked under the upholstery and the seat cushion where it evidently had fallen; and she suspected that a code was concealed in the peculiar use of five one-cent Canadian stamps, in place of the regular three-cent postage, on thirteen letters. We deciphered the code--and this message:--"

"Well?" questioned Roberts eagerly, as he paused. "What?"

"'Watch thirteenth letter suicides grave,'" repeated Trenholm, and his listeners gazed at him blankly. Turning abruptly to Betty, he addressed her. "Did you take some photographs of this house a little while ago, and one of this room?"

"Why, yes," she exclaimed. "Just before I went to Canada, and Mr. Zybinn developed the negatives for me. He was a paralytic, and while unable to walk, dabbled in photography. He had some enlargements made of my kodak films."

"And one of this room?" quickly.

"Yes. He said it was a remarkably good interior and made me describe all the objects in it--"

"Especially this"--going over to the wall, Trenholm took down a picture and held it in plain view. He stopped as the constable and Riley came into the bedroom, the latter with a sheaf of telegrams in his hand. "Ah, Constable, you are just in time--this picture was made by Paul's mother, who was an artist of some ability. She modeled it after those quaint Swiss paintings of a cemetery with a church in the background, in which a _real_ clock was put in the tower. In this picture of the Masons' neglected burying ground, Mrs. Abbott etched in the background a church tower and _placed in the tower this antique watch_."

Trenholm turned the picture around and pointed to a watch, a tiny affair, which was firmly held in the canvas by a clever contrivance. He drew out the watch with a careful hand, the others watching him breathlessly.

"The first word of the code is 'watch.' Here it is," Trenholm held up the antique watch. "The next two words, 'thirteenth letter,' which is 'M', you will find is the initial engraved on the back of the watch; and the last two words, 'suicide's grave,' exemplified by this picture of Colonel Mason's grave." Trenholm turned to Betty and asked: "Did you not tell Zybinn that you chanced to see Paul remove the works from this watch?"

"Yes," she admitted. "Zybinn asked me if the watch was too old to keep accurate time and I told him Paul had taken it apart."

"So that was it," and Trenholm nodded. "Paul removed the works from the watch because he evidently judged it to be an admirable hiding place for--"

"The Paltoff diamond!" shouted Roberts.

For answer Trenholm opened the watch. Inside the round hollow lay a wad of cotton--and on top of it the lost jewel.

They gathered about the table, even Roberts, forgetful for a brief second that he was handcuffed, and gazed at the beautiful gem, dazzled by its luster and purity.

Trenholm was the first to speak. "Paul knew little rest after the Paltoff diamond was intrusted to his care. He was constantly haunted by a morbid fear of losing it or of being robbed of it, so that he could never be induced to exhibit it."

"He showed it to Betty and to me," declared Mrs. Nash, breaking her long silence. "And swore us to absolute secrecy. I greatly feared," she added, "that Betty was in some way mixed up in the tragedy and my husband's extraordinary denial of their presence here on Monday, when Pierre had brought me Betty's telegram to Paul, fed my imagination--and--and--I dropped that note to you, Mr. Trenholm, and--" not meeting her husband's reproachful glance, but looking instead at Miriam--"I took surreptitious doses of phenacetin and accidentally overdid it and nearly killed myself, but," with a return of her old arrogant air, "I was determined to find out what was going on in this house, whatever the consequences."

"I see," Trenholm concealed a smile, and then grew grave. "The usual ill-luck, apparently inseparable from the possession of great diamonds, has overtaken Paul," he said sorrowfully. "He remained true to his trust and never parted with the jewel. Miss Ward," with an abruptness which startled her from her study of Roberts, whose eyes had never left the diamond, "your uncle, M. Paltoff, gave the gem to Paul--they are both dead--what do you wish done with it?"

She could not prevent a shudder. "I cannot take it," she protested. "Can you not turn it over to the Department of State and let the Government decide as to its disposition?"

"An excellent suggestion." Trenholm, after replacing the diamond in its hiding place, secreted the watch carefully in an inside pocket. "Stand back, Roberts," as the physician made an effort to wrench it from him. "You will go with the constable and Riley, but first," his voice deepened, "how was it that you, supposedly a reputable physician and a man of honor, joined Zybinn in his endeavor to steal the Paltoff diamond?"

Roberts turned sullenly, the veneer gone; and a criminal, crafty and sinister-eyed, faced them.

"I am a drug addict," he admitted. "I became so two years ago after a nervous breakdown. I was ship's surgeon on the transport with Paul. He sent for me and I removed the diamond from the wound in his leg. I was straight then. My practice had fallen off; I was, in fact, a ruined man when, on a visit to Doctor Nash, I met Zybinn. He wormed Paul's secret out of me, and promised, if I would steal the jewel, to give me half the value of the diamond. I knew he had money, for he had deposited a large fortune in a bank in Toronto before fleeing from Russia after a quarrel with Lenin. Zybinn pointed out that the diamond was too celebrated to be negotiable in the usual channels, and that, cut into smaller stones, it would lose most of its value, and so I agreed to his terms."

"And why the stamp code?" asked Trenholm, as Roberts came to an abrupt halt.

"Doctor Nash had employed me to travel with Paul and keep him under observation, and it was thought wiser for Zybinn not to communicate directly with me," Roberts turned to Miriam. "A glass of water, please." Riley got it for him, before Miriam could move, from the pitcher placed for Mrs. Nash's use on the bedstand.

Roberts looked over at Betty, a malignant grin distorting his face.

"Zybinn used you as a cat's paw," he said. "Through you he gained an intimate knowledge of Paul's habits, his mode of life, and, using his remarkable powers of deduction, twice located the hiding place of the diamond--in each instance too late, for Paul's capricious habits, his secretiveness, yes," with grudging admiration, "his cleverness balked us. And so did you," wheeling on Mrs. Nash with a suddenness which made her jump. "I tried to secure the thirteenth letter on Tuesday night, but Martha detected me, and last night you pulled off my disguise."

"Why did you risk discovery?" asked Mrs. Nash. "Why not have telegraphed to Zybinn for the message on his last letter?"

"I telephoned from Washington on Tuesday and was told he had died from apoplexy on Monday afternoon--his third stroke," added Roberts. "That message on his letter to Paul was Zybinn's last word to me. He thought I was still here at Abbott's Lodge."

"Just a moment," broke in Trenholm. "Why did Zybinn use the words 'thirteenth letter' to designate the initial 'M' on the back of the watch?"

"Because in devising our code we failed to make provision for indicating an initial, expecting never to use one." Roberts chafed one cold hand over the other. "Had I decoded Zybinn's last message, I'd have gotten his meaning, however, for that little sketch is the only painting by Paul's mother on the premises and always cherished by her son. He invariably spoke of the sketch as 'The Suicide's Grave.'"

"I told Zybinn that," admitted Betty. "Great heavens! how I played into his hands--"

"Just so!" agreed Roberts with sneering emphasis. He straightened up, swayed slightly and recovered his balance with an effort. "Come," addressing Trenholm, "I can stand no more."

The constable was by his side and Riley at his heels instantly. "We'll take him to Upper Marlboro, sir," the former stated, and at a nod from Trenholm, Roberts, with eyes averted from his former friends, left the room, the black shroudlike cloth still thrown about his shoulders--typical in its vague outlines of the shadowed and complex nature of the man.

Mrs. Nash's overcharged feelings found relief in tears. "There," she exclaimed, as her distracted husband held a glass of water and Miriam the smelling salts. "I'll be myself in a minute. Betty, come and tell me why you remained here, instead of returning to Washington with your uncle, and why you lied about your visit to Paul."

Betty cleared her throat. "You were partly responsible--"

"I?" her aunt regarded her in astonishment.

"Yes. After leaving the house I remembered my promise to Uncle Alexander to telephone you why we were detained, and while he was cranking the car, I jumped out and rang the bell. No one came and I waited and rang again. Looking around I saw that Uncle had driven off. I tried to overtake him and failed, so spent the night here in Paul's garage, the door being unlocked. Martha found me there in the morning and gave me some breakfast. She told me Paul had been murdered. It was a frightful shock!" Betty drew in her breath. "And I lost my head and ran away; and, to make bad matters worse, denied my visit here." She turned impulsively to Alan.

"You will never know the suffering I have endured since Monday," she said, and her voice quivered with emotion. She read his expression, and a look of hope, of joy, flashed up in her face. "Am I forgiven?"

Alan's arms were around her, his lips against hers. "You are loved," he whispered. "Does not that cover all?" and he led her from the room.

Martha intercepted Miriam as she was on her way to her own room an hour later.

"He's waiting downstairs," she said, pointing in the direction of the living room.

"He?--Who?"

"Mr. Trenholm." And Martha who, since Corbin's arrest for complicity in Paul's murder and for having narcotics concealed in his cache in the suicide's grave, had kept carefully hidden in the kitchen closet, stole softly to bed.

Trenholm dropped the paper he was reading as Miriam paused in front of him, and sprang to his feet.

"I hoped that you would come," he said. "Betty and Alan are in the sunparlor. In our talk they have cleared up the last threads of the mystery. It seems that Betty's telegram to Paul was telephoned out from Upper Marlboro and Alan wrote it down on a slip of paper and gave it to him. It was to secure that paper, Betty thinking it a regular telegraph blank, that they both tried to search this house and my bungalow."

"Mr. Abbott had a paper in his hand when he told me that Miss Carter would be here," broke in Miriam.

"Ah, then he must have carried it with him into the sitting room, and dropped it on the way there," replied Trenholm. "Pierre found it and took it to Mrs. Nash."

A ghost of a smile hovered about Miriam's lips. "I cannot help but like Mrs. Nash," she confessed, then changed the subject swiftly. "What took Mr. Abbott into the sitting room when I went downstairs to admit Miss Carter and Doctor Nash?"

Trenholm shook his head. "We will never know, but I imagine it was some sixth sense which warned him of danger to the diamond--the gem seemed to exert a remarkable influence over him. Poor Paul!" Trenholm sighed. "His extraordinary will-power triumphed over physical disability and gave him strength to reach the sitting room."

Miriam's eyes filled with tears. "I cannot shake off a sense of responsibility for the tragedy--"

"Nonsense!" Trenholm spoke with the vehemence characteristic of him. "Never think that."

Miriam's smile did not dispel the shadow which saddened her expression.

"It is good-by, Mr. Trenholm," she said, holding out her hand. "I leave for Washington early to-morrow."

Trenholm's hand closed over hers with a pressure that hurt.

"Good-by," he repeated mechanically. "No, I can't let you go out of my life; for you have become all in all to me." As he met the gaze of her lovely eyes, his set speech, which he had rehearsed again and again while waiting to see her, flew out of his mind.

"Miriam, I have only love to offer--" His clear voice faltered. For a second they gazed steadfastly at each other, and the old, old story which never grows old was told again as Trenholm clasped Miriam to his heart and her lips met his in unconditional surrender.

THE END

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=Gray Phantom's Return, The.= Herman Landon.
=Great Impersonation, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim,
=Great Prince Shan, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Greater Love Hath No Man.= Frank L. Packard.
=Green Eyes of Bast, The.= Sax Rohmer.
=Green Goddess, The.= Louise Jordan Miln, (Photoplay Ed.).
=Greyfriars Bobby.= Eleanor Atkinson.
=Gun Brand, The.= James B. Hendryx.
=Gun Runner, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Guns of the Gods.= Talbot Mundy.

=Hand of Fu-Manchu, The.= Sax Rohmer.
=Hand of Peril, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Harbor Road, The.= Sara Ware Bassett.
=Harriet and the Piper.= Kathleen Norris.
=Havoc.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Head of the House of Coombe, The.= Frances Hodgson Burnett.
=Heart of the Desert, The.= Honoré Willsie.
=Heart of the Hills, The.= John Fox, Jr.
=Heart of the Range, The.= William Patterson White.
=Heart of the Sunset.= Rex Beach.
=Heart of Unaga, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Helen of the Old House.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Hidden Places, The.= Bertrand W. Sinclair.
=Hidden Trails.= William Patterson White.
=Hillman, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Hira Singh.= Talbot Mundy.
=His Last Bow.= A. Conan Doyle.
=His Official Fiancee.= Berta Ruck.
=Homeland.= Margaret Hill McCarter.
=Homestead Ranch.= Elizabeth G. Young.
=Honor of the Big Snows.= James Oliver Curwood.
=Hopalong Cassidy.= Clarence E. Mulford.
=Hound from the North, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=House of the Whispering Pines, The.= Anna Katharine Green.
=Humoresque.= Fannie Hurst.

=Illustrious Prince, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=In Another Girl's Shoes.= Berta Ruck.
=Indifference of Juliet, The.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Infelice.= Augusta Evans Wilson.
=Initials Only.= Anna Katharine Green.
=Innocent.= Marie Corelli.
=Innocent Adventuress, The.= Mary Hastings Bradley.
=Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, The.= Sax Rohmer.
=In the Brooding Wild.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=In the Onyx Lobby.= Carolyn Wells.
=Iron Trail, The.= Rex Beach.
=Iron Woman, The.= Margaret Deland.
=Ishmael.= (Ill.) Mrs. Southworth.
=Isle of Retribution.= Edison Marshall.
=I've Married Marjorie.= Margaret Widdemer.
=Ivory Trail, The.= Talbot Mundy.

=Jacob's Ladder.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Jean of the Lazy A.= B. M. Bower.
=Jeanne of the Marshes.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Jeeves.= P. G. Wodehouse.
=Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clew.= Frank L. Packard.
=Johnny Nelson.= Clarence E. Mulford.
=Joseph Greer and His Daughter.= Henry Kitchell Webster.
=Judith of the Godless Valley.= Honoré Willsie.

=Keeper of the Door, The.= Ethel M. Dell.
=Keith of the Border.= Randall Parrish.
=Kent Knowles: Quahaug.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Kilmeny of the Orchard.= L. M. Montgomery.
=Kingdom of the Blind, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=King of Kearsarge.= Arthur O. Friel.
=King of the Khyber Rifles.= Talbot Mundy.
=King Spruce.= Holman Day.
=Knave of Diamonds, The.= Ethel M. Dell.

=Land-Girl's Love Story, A.= Berta Ruck.
=Land of Strong Men, The.= A. M. Chisholm.
=Laramie Holds the Range.= Frank H. Spearman.
=Last Trail, The.= Zane Grey.
=Laughing Bill Hyde.= Rex Beach.
=Laughing Girl, The.= Robert W. Chambers.
=Law Breakers, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Law of the Gun, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Leavenworth Case, The.= Anna Katherine Green. (Photoplay Edition).
=Light That Failed, The.= Rudyard Kipling. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Lighted Way, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Lin McLean.= Owen Wister.
=Lister's Great Adventure.= Harold Bindloss.
=Little Moment of Happiness, The.= Clarence Budington Kelland.
=Little Red Foot, The.= Robert W. Chambers.
=Little Warrior, The.= Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
=Lonely Warrior, The.= Claude C. Washburn.
=Lonesome Land.= B. M. Bower.
=Lone Wolf, The.= Louis Joseph Vance.
=Long Live the King.= Mary Roberts Rinehart. (Photoplay Edition).
=Lost Ambassador.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Lost Discovery, The.= Baillie Reynolds.
=Lost Prince, The.= Frances Hodgson Burnett.
=Lost World, The.= A. Conan Doyle.
=Luck of the Kid, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Lucretia Lombard.= Kathleen Norris.
=Luminous Face, The.= Carolyn Wells.
=Lydia of the Pines.= Honoré Willsie.
=Lynch Lawyers.= William Patterson White.

=McCarty Incog.= Isabel Ostrander.
=Major, The.= Ralph Connor.
=Maker of History, A.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Malefactor, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Man and Maid.= Elinor Glyn.
=Man from Bar 20, The.= Clarence E. Mulford.
=Man from the Bitter Roots, The.= Caroline Lockhart.
=Man in the Moonlight, The.= Rupert S. Holland.
=Man in the Twilight, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Man Killers, The.= Dane Coolidge.
=Man Who Couldn't Sleep, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Man's Country.= Peter Clark Macfarlane.
=Marqueray's Duel.= Anthony Pryde.
=Martin Conisby's Vengeance.= Jeffery Farnol.
=Mary-Gusta.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Mary Wollaston.= Henry Kitchell Webster.
=Mason of Bar X Ranch.= H. Bennett.
=Master of Man.= Hall Caine.
=Master Mummer, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.= A Conan Doyle.
=Men Who Wrought, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Meredith Mystery, The.= Natalie Sumner Lincoln.
=Midnight of the Ranges.= George Gilbert.
=Mine with the Iron Door, The.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Mischief Maker, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Missioner, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Miss Million's Maid.= Berta Ruck.
=Money, Love and Kate.= Eleanor H. Porter.
=Money Master, The.= Gilbert Parker.
=Money Moon, The.= Jeffery Farnol.
=Moonlit Way, The.= Robert W. Chambers.
=More Limehouse Nights.= Thomas Burke.
=More Tish.= Mary Roberts Rinehart.
=Moreton Mystery, The.= Elizabeth Dejeans.
=Mr. and Mrs. Sen.= Louise Jordan Miln.
=Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Mr. Pratt.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Mr. Pratt's Patients.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Mrs. Red Pepper.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Mr. Wu.= Louise Jordan Miln.
=My Lady of the North.= Randall Parrish.
=My Lady of the South.= Randall Parish.
=Mystery Girl, The.= Carolyn Wells.
=Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, The.= Anna K. Green.
=Mystery of the Silver Dagger, The.= Randall Parrish.

=Nameless River.= Vingie E. Roe.
=Ne'er-Do-Well, The.= Rex Beach. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Net, The.= Rex Beach.
=Never Fail Blake.= Arthur Stringer.
=Next Corner, The.= Kate Jordan.
=Nightfall.= Anthony Pryde.
=Night Horseman, The.= Max Brand.
=Night of the Wedding, The.= C. N. and A. M. Williamson.
=Night Operator, The.= Frank L. Packard.
=Night Riders, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Nine Unknown, The.= Talbot Mundy.
=Nobody's Man.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=No Defence.= Gilbert Parker.
=North.= James B. Hendryx.

=Obstacle Race, The.= Ethel M. Dell.
=Odds.= Ethel M. Dell.
=Old Misery.= Hugh Pendexter.
=Omoo.= Herman Melville.
=One Thing Is Certain.= Sophie Kerr.
=One-Way Trail, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Ordeal of Honor, An.= Anthony Pryde.
=Outlaw, The.= Jackson Gregory.
=Owner of the Lazy D.= William Patterson White.

=Panelled Room, The.= Rupert Sargent Holland.
=Paradise Bend.= William Patterson White.
=Pardners.= Rex Beach.
=Partners of the Tide.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Patricia Brent, Spinster.= Anonymous.
=Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail, The.= Ralph Connor.
=Paul Anthony, Christian.= Hiram W. Hayes.
=Pawned.= Frank L. Packard.
=Pawns Count, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Pay Gravel.= Hugh Pendexter.
=Peacemakers, The.= Hiram W. Hayes.
=Peregrine's Progress.= Jeffery Farnol.
=Peter Ruff and the Double Four.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Phantom Wires.= Arthur Stringer.
=Pointed Tower, The.= Vance Thompson.
=Pollyanna; "The Glad Book."= Eleanor H. Porter. (Lim. Ed.).
Trade Mark--Trade-Mark.
=Poor Man's Rock.= Bertrand W. Sinclair.
=Poor Wise Man, A.= Mary Roberts Rinehart.
=Poisoned Paradise, The.= Robert W. Service. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Portygee, The.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Possession.= Olive Wadsley.
=Postmaster, The.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Prairie Child, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Prairie Flowers.= James B. Hendryx.
=Prairie Mother, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Prairie Wife, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Pretender, The.= Robert W. Service.
=Prince of Sinners, A.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Prodigal Daughters, The.= Joseph Hocking. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Prodigal Son.= Hall Caine. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Profiteers, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Promise, The.= J. B. Hendryx.
=Public Square, The.= Will Levington Comfort.
=Purple Mask, The.= Louise Jordan Miln.
=Purple Pearl, The.= Anthony Pryde.

=Quemado.= William West Winter.
=Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The.= Sax Rohmer.
=Quill's Window.= George Barr McCutcheon.

=Rainbow's End, The.= Rex Beach.
=Rainbow Valley.= L. M. Montgomery.
=Ramshackle House.= Hulbert Footner.
=Ranch at the Wolverine, The.= B. M. Bower.
=Ranching for Sylvia.= Harold Bindloss.
=Rangy Pete.= Guy Morton.
=Raspberry Jam.= Carolyn Wells.
=Reclaimers, The.= Margaret Hill McCarter.
=Re-Creation of Brian Kent, The.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Red and Black.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Red Pepper Burns.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Red Pepper's Patients.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Red Seal, The.= Natalie Sumner Lincoln.
=Restless Sex, The.= Robert W. Chambers.
=Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, The.= Sax Rohmer.
=Return of Frank Clamart, The.= Henry C. Rowland.
=Return of Tarzan, The.= Edgar Rice Burroughs.
=Riddle of the Frozen Flame, The.= M. E. and T. W. Hanshew.
=Riddle of the Mysterious Light, The.= M. E. and T. W. Hanshew.
=Riddle of the Purple Emperor, The.= M. E. and T. W. Hanshew.
=Riddle of the Spinning Wheel, The.= M. E. and T. W. Hanshew.
=Rider of the Golden Bar, The.= William Patterson White.
=Rider of the King Log, The.= Holman Day.
=Rider o' the Stars.= R. J. Horton.
=Riders of the Silences.= John Frederick.
=Rilla of Ingleside.= L. M. Montgomery.
=Rimrock Trail.= J. Allan Dunn.
=Rise of Roscoe Paine, The.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=River Trail, The.= Laurie Y. Erskine.
=Robin.= Frances Hodgson Burnett.
=Rocks of Valpre, The.= Ethel M. Dell.
=Rogues of the North.= Albert M. Treynor.
=Romance of a Million Dollars, The.= Elizabeth Dejeans.
=Rosa Mundi.= Ethel M. Dell.
=Rose of Santa Fe, The.= Edwin L. Sabin.
=Round the Corner in Gay Street.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Round-Up, The.= Oscar J. Friend.
=Rung Ho!= Talbot Mundy.
=Rustler of Wind River, The.= G. W. Ogden.

=St. Elmo.= (Ill. Ed.) Augusta J. Evans.
=Sand.= Olive Wadsley.
=Scarlet Iris, The.= Vance Thompson.
=Scattergood Baines.= Clarence Budington Kelland.
=Second Violin, The.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Secret Power, The.= Marie Corelli.
=Self-Raised.= (Ill.). Mrs. Southworth.
=Settling of the Sage.= Hal G. Evarts.
=Seven Ages of Woman, The.= Compton Mackenzie.
=Seven Darlings, The.= Gouverneur Morris.
=Seventh Man, The.= Max Brand.
=Shadow of the East, The.= E. M. Hull. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Shadow on the Glass, The.= Charles J. Dutton.
=Shavings.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Sheik, The.= E. M. Hull.
=Sheila of Big Wreck Cove.= James H. Cooper.
=Shepherd of the Hills, The.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Shepherds of the Wild.= Edison Marshall.
=Sheriff of Dyke Hole, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Sherry.= George Barr McCutcheon.
=Shoe-Bar Stratton.= Joseph B. Ames.
=Sight Unseen, and The Confession.= Mary Roberts Rinehart.
=Silver Horde, The.= Rex Beach.
=Silver Poppy, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Singing Bone, The.= R. Austin Freeman.
=Singing Wells, The.= Roland Pertwee.
=Sinister Mark, The.= Lee Thayer.
=Sin That Was His, The.= Frank L. Packard.
=Sir or Madam.= Berta Ruck.
=Sisters-in-Law.= Gertrude Atherton.
=Sky Line of Spruce.= Edison Marshall.
=Slayer of Souls, The.= Robert W. Chambers.
=Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands.= Eliot H. Robinson.
=Snowdrift.= James B. Hendryx.
=Snowshoe Trail, The.= Edison Marshall.
=Son of His Father, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Son of Tarzan, The.= Edgar Rice Burroughs.
=Souls for Sale.= Rupert Hughes. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Speckled Bird, A.= Augusta Evans Wilson.
=Spirit of the Border, The.= Zane Grey. (New Edition).
=Spirit-of-Iron.= Harwood Steele.
=Spoilers, The.= Rex Beach. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Spoilers of the Valley, The.= Robert Watson.
=Star Dust.= Fannie Hurst.
=Steele of the Royal Mounted.= James Oliver Curwood.
=Step on the Stair, The.= Anna Katherine Green.
=Still Jim.= Honoré Willsie.
=Story of Foss River Ranch, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Story of Marco, The.= Eleanor H. Porter.
=Strange Case of Cavendish, The.= Randall Parrish.
=Strawberry Acres.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Strength of the Pines, The.= Edison Marshall.
=Subconscious Courtship, The.= Berta Ruck.
=Substitute Millionaire, The.= Hulbert Footner.
=Sudden Jim.= Clarence B. Kelland.
=Sweethearts Unmet.= Berta Ruck.
=Sweet Stranger.= Berta Ruck.

=Tales of Chinatown.= Sax Rohmer.
=Tales of Secret Egypt.= Sax Rohmer.
=Tales of Sherlock Holmes.= A. Conan Doyle.
=Talkers, The.= Robert W. Chambers.
=Talisman, The.= Sir Walter Scott. (Photoplay Ed.).
Screened as Richard the Lion Hearted.
=Taming of Zenas Henry, The.= Sara Ware Bassett.
=Tarzan of the Apes.= Edgar Rice Burroughs.
=Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.= Edgar Rice Burroughs.
=Tattooed Arm, The.= Isabel Ostrander.
=Tempting of Tavernake, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Tess of the D'Urbervilles.= Thomas Hardy. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Tex.= Clarence E. Mulford.
=Texan, The.= James B. Hendryx.
=Thankful's Inheritance.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=That Affair at "The Cedars."= Lee Thayer.
=That Printer of Udell's.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Their Yesterdays.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Thief of Bagdad, The.= Achmed Abdullah. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Thieves' Wit.= Hulbert Footner.
=Thirteenth Commandment, The.= Rupert Hughes.
=This Side of Paradise.= F. Scott Fitzgerald.
=Thoroughbred, The.= Henry Kitchell Webster.
=Thread of Flame, The.= Basil King.
=Three Black Bags.= Marion Polk Angelloti.
=Three Men and a Maid.= P. G. Wodehouse.
=Three Musketeers, The.= Alexander Dumas.
=Three of Hearts, The.= Berta Ruck.
=Through the Shadows with O. Henry.= Al. Jennings.
=Thunderbolt, The.= Clyde Perrin.
=Timber.= Harold Titus.
=Timber Pirate.= Charles Christopher Jenkins.
=Tish.= Mary Roberts Rinehart.
=To Him That Hath.= Ralph Connor.
=Toilers of the Sea, The.= Victor Hugo. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Toll of the Sands.= Paul Delaney.
=Trail of the Axe, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Trailin'.= Max Brand.
=Trail to Yesterday, The.= Chas. A. Seltzer.
=Treasure of Heaven, The.= Marie Corelli.
=Trigger of Conscience, The.= Robert Orr Chipperfield.
=Triumph of John Kars, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, The.= Baroness Orczy.
=Trodden Gold.= Howard Vincent O'Brien.
=Trooper O'Neill.= George Goodchild.
=Trouble at the Pinelands, The.= Ernest M. Porter.
=T. Tembarom.= Frances Hodgson Burnett.
=Tumbleweeds.= Hal G. Evarts.
=Turn of the Tide.= Eleanor H. Porter.
=Twenty-fourth of June.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Twins of Suffering Creek, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Two-Gun Man, The.= Chas. A. Seltzer.
=Two-Gun Man, The.= Robert Ames Bennet.
=Two-Gun Sue.= Douglas Grant.
=Typee.= Herman Melville.
=Tyrrel of the Cow Country.= Robert Ames Bennet.

=Under Handicap.= Jackson Gregory.
=Under the Country Sky.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Uneasy Street.= Arthur Somers Roche.
=Unlatched Door, The.= Lee Thayer.
=Unpardonable Sin, The.= Major Rupert Hughes.
=Unseen Ear, The.= Natalie Sumner Lincoln.
=Untamed, The.= Max Brand.
=Up and Coming.= Nalbro Bartley.
=Up From Slavery.= Booker T. Washington.
=Ursula Trent.= W. L. George.

=Valiants of Virginia, The.= Hallie Erminie Rives.
=Valley of Content, The.= Blanche Upright.
=Valley of Fear, The.= Sir A. Conan Doyle.
=Valley of Gold, The.= David Howarth.
=Valley of the Sun, The.= William M. McCoy.
=Vandemark's Folly.= Herbert Quick.
=Vanguards of the Plains.= Margaret Hill McCarter.
=Vanished Messenger, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=Vanishing of Betty Varian, The.= Carolyn Wells.
=Vanity Fair.= Wm. M. Thackeray. (Photoplay Ed.).
=Vashti.= Augusta Evans Wilson.
=Viola Gwyn.= George Barr McCutcheon.
=Virginia of Elk Creek Valley.= Mary Ellen Chase.
=Virtuous Wives.= Owen Johnson.
=Voice of the Pack, The.= Edison Marshall.

=Wagon Wheel, The.= William Patterson White.
=Wall Between, The.= Sara Ware Bassett.
=Wall of Men, A.= Margaret Hill McCarter.
=Wasted Generation, The.= Owen Johnson.
=Watchers of the Plains, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Way of an Eagle, The.= Ethel M. Dell.
=Way of the Strong, The.= Ridgwell Cullum.
=Way of These Women, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.
=We Can't Have Everything.= Major Rupert Hughes.
=Weavers, The.= Gilbert Parker.
=West Broadway.= Nina Wilcox Putnam.
=West Wind Drift.= George Barr McCutcheon.
=What's the World Coming To?= Rupert Hughes.
=What Will People Say?= Rupert Hughes.
=Wheels Within Wheels.= Carolyn Wells.
=Whelps of the Wolf, The.= George Marsh.
=When a Man's a Man.= Harold Bell Wright. (Photoplay Ed.).
=When Egypt Went Broke.= Holman Day.
=Where the Sun Swings North.= Barnett Willoughby.
=Where There's a Will.= Mary Roberts Rinehart.
=Whispering Sage.= Henry Sinclair Drago and Joseph Noel.
=White Jacket.= Herman Melville.
=White Moll, The.= Frank L. Packard.
=Why Not.= Margaret Widdemer.
=Window at the White Cat, The.= Mary Roberts Rinehart.
=Winds of Chance, The.= Rex Beach.
=Winds of the World, The.= Talbot Mundy.
=Wine of Life, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Winning of Barbara Worth, The.= Harold Bell Wright.
=Winning the Wilderness.= Margaret Hill McCarter.
=Wire Devils, The.= Frank L. Packard.
=Wire Tappers, The.= Arthur Stringer.
=Wishing Ring Man, The.= Margaret Widdemer.
=With Juliet in England.= Grace S. Richmond.
=Within These Walls.= Rupert Hughes.
=Wolfville.= Alfred Henry Lewis.
=Woman from "Outside," The.= Hulbert Footner.
=Woman Gives, The.= Owen Johnson.
=Woman Haters, The.= Joseph C. Lincoln.
=Woman of Knockaloe, The.= Hall Caine.
=Woman Thou Gavest Me, The.= Hall Caine.
=Woodcarver of 'Lympus, The.= Mary E. Waller.
=Wooing of Rosamond Fayre, The.= Berta Ruck.
=Wrong Mr. Right, The.= Berta Ruck.

=Year of Delight.= Margaret Widdemer.
=Years for Rachel, The.= Berta Ruck.
=Yellow Claw, The.= Sax Rohmer.
=Yellow Horde, The.= Hal G. Evarts.
=You're Only Young Once.= Margaret Widdemer.

=Zeppelin's Passenger, The.= E. Phillips Oppenheim.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Words that were italicized in the original paper book are noted by an underscore (_) before and after; words that were typeset in bold font are noted by a equal sign (=) before and after.

Dumfounded on page 21 has been corrected to dumbfounded.

Bed clothes on pages 63 and 77 have been rendered as bedcloths, in keeping with other usage in the text.

Dosing, on page 111 has been corrected to dozing.

A full stop on page 219 has been corrected to a semi-colon.

Dining-room, on pages 151 and 235, has been corrected to two words in keeping with other uses in the book.

Superstitition on page 128 has been changed to superstition.

Parchmentlike page 187 has been changed to parchment-like to regularize hyphenation.

A period on in the last sentence on page 174 to correct punctuation.

The hyphen in half-burned on page 48 has been removed, to regularize use across the text.

The hyphen in porte-cochère on page 4 has been removed, to regularize use across the text.

The hyphens in out-of-doors on page 188 have been removed, to regularize use across the text.

The hyphen in fire-tongs on page 265 has been removed, to regularize use across the text.

An an on page 207 has been corrected to remove the second an.

Archaic and variant spellings have been retained.

All other hyphenation and capitalization have been retained as typeset.