Front matter
Reading edition
BY
TOM GALLON
Author of
“Tatterly,”
“The Kingdom of Hate,”
et cetera.
NEW YORK
Dodd, Mead & Company
Copyright, 1900,
By Tom Gallon.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Wherein the Quick and the Dead Meet 1
II. On the Track of a Shadow 14
III. Betty Siggs Becomes Alarmed 27
IV. A Sunday to be Remembered 40
V. An Honest Sailor-man 53
VI. At the Sign of “The Three Watermen” 66
VII. Master and Servant 80
VIII. Tells of Something Hidden in the Wood 93
IX. A Summons from Shylock 106
X. A Body from the River 120
XI. Miss Vint Hears Voices 133
XII. Wanted—A Dead Man! 146
XIII. Inspector Tokely is Emphatic 159
XIV. Betty Siggs Dreams a Dream 173
XV. Shady ’un as a Moral Character 186
XVI. Who Killed this Woman? 199
XVII. Clara Finds a Lodging 212
XVIII. A Chase in the Dark 224
XIX. Haunted 238
XX. Neptune to the Rescue 252
XXI. Dr. Cripps is Incoherent 265
XXII. Ogledon Plays his Last Card 279
XXIII. Dandy Chater Comes from the Grave 293
XXIV. A Race for a Life 306
XXV. Going—Going—Gone! 320
The Second Dandy Chater