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CHAPTER I-Tranois Lodsam defends
Oliver Hllditch. q powerful buainess man,
In q murder case and succeeds In get
ting him of. only to bs told by q young,
prepossessing woman. who says that
she 10 Oliver Hildttch's wife, that Hill
ditch " an arch criminal and that Led
sam has turned loose q dangerous man
to resume his preying upon society.
CHAPTER II-Ledaam, dining with
his best friend, Andrew Wtlmore. meets
Hilditch and his wife and is invited to
dine with them a9 their home.
CHAPTER IIL-At dinner with the
Hilditches, Oliver shows Ledsam how
he killed his victim and says his own
death the same way would make his
wife supremely happy. Returning
home. Ledsam receives Q phone call
from Margaret. saying oliver has been
murdered.
CHAPTER IV-LedsAm gets the eeE-
oner to set divers death down es
suicide. Later on he admits TO Will
more that he has developed keen Ia
tsrest In Margaret He meets her ia
thsr. Sir Timothy BrasA the evil shep-
herd, who tells him o crime wiu be
committed before they leave the cafe.
CHAPTER v-Ths crime 10 com
mittsd and shopland, Q Scotland Yard
detective. asks Lsdsam 70 interview the
girl In the ease.
CHAPTER VI-Daisy tells Ledsam
nothing much. except that her COM
panion had led o pretty fast life and
evil companions.
CHAPTER vII-By chance Francis
meets Margaret and asks for permis-
sion to call, which she refuses. He
tells her he will ask her fathers per-
mission ana Margaret begs him to have
nothing to do with Sir Timothy. al
though she admits he 10 everything
that 10 kind 70 her.
CHAPTER VuJ-Just 80 Sir Timothy
appears to be tbs murderer In the Sec
end AfIaiP. another mAA suicides. ad-
mittiAg his guia6
CHAPTER IX-Brast displays an un-
usual humane side TO his character
and mysufes Ledsam By It.
CHAPTER x-Franeis 10 invited to
dine with Brast at his cottage. Return
ing to his offlcs he ands an unfinished
scrawl from the brother Of Wilmore,
asking aid. but ending abruptly. Will
more then tells him his younger brother
has been missing for days aaG they
fear harm has befallsa him. ssareh for
him proves unavAAlin9.
CHAPTER xI-Under the influence
OF q lovely moon and the quiet Of the
river Franeis kisses Margaret and the
latter doesnot resent II. although ask
ing Francis to escort her back to the
house. They nnd Sir Timothy had taken
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The next morning Francis escorts Lady
Cynthia to London and finds Margaret
had left before them. Francis admits
that he wishes to marry Margaret.
CHAPTER XIL-Shopland tells Fran
els that he can fnd nothing definite
about young Wilmore's whereabouts.
Francis runs into Margaret and she
yields and becomes engaged to him.
CHAPTER XIII-Sir Timothy hnds
the happy couple dining at Ledsam's
chambers. Unable to forbid the mar
riage he secures their consent to keep
the announcement Of their engagement
secret for two weeks. Shopland meets
Francis and discloses that he hopes to
get Sir Timothy in the tolls Of the law
In q short time.
CHAPTER XIV-Margaret confesses
20 Francis that she had never cared for
Hilditeh. Sir Timothy offers Shopland
temporary truce, whereby Francis,
Wtlmore and Daisy Hyslop will be al
lowed to attend party at tho Walled
House and then tell him anything ilis-
gal that has happened there. The do.
tsctive accepts.
CHAPTER xv-Lady Cynthia forces
an invitation from Brast to @ trip to
the London slums. Lady Cynthia falls
In love with Brast, . feeling he rscip-
rooatss.
CHAPTER XvI-Plans for q party at
the Walled House are laid, to which
Lady Cynthia 10 also invited
CHAPTER xvII-A seedy looking in
dividual tells Francis he was Hilditch's
butler at the time Hilditch was killed,
and that he saw Sir Timothy commit
the murder. Francis buys his silence
and receives in exchange two confess
stons.
CHAPTER xvIII-As preparations
20 forward for the party at the Walled
House. Sir Timothy is called to the
phone by Hilditch's former butler, who
tells him that he gives him a sporting
chance to leave the country before his
confession becomes public. Sir Tim
othy 10 thoughtful. but declines to
stampede. They all 60 to the Walled
House and enter into the festivities.
Francis found himself almost lmmeul-
ately upon his feet. His whole being
seemed crying out for interference.
Lady Cynthia's death-white face and
pleading eyes seemed like the echo Of
his own passionate aversion to what
was taking place. Then he met Sir
Timothy's gaze across the room and he
remembered his promise. Under no
conditions was he to protest or inter-
fere. He set his teeth and resumed
his seat. The fight went on. There
were little sobs and tremors of excite
ment, strange banks of silence. Both
men seemed out of condition. The
sound Of their hoarse breathing was
easily heard against the curtain OF
spellbound silence. For time their
knives rtabbed the empty air, but
from the first the end seemed certain.
The Englishman attacked wildly. His
adversary waited his time, content
with avoiding the murderous blows
struck at him, striving all the time to
steal underneath the others guard
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