CONTENTS

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I.The Leather Funnel[1]
II.The Beetle Hunter[18]
III.The Man with the Watches[41]
IV.The Pot of Caviare[65]
V.The Japanned Box[85]
VI.The Black Doctor[103]
VII.Playing with Fire[129]
VIII.The Jew’s Breastplate[149]
IX.The Lost Special[177]
X.The Club-footed Grocer[202]
XI.The Sealed Room[229]
XII.The Brazilian Cat[248]
XIII.The Usher of Lea House School[276]
XIV.The Brown Hand[299]
XV.The Fiend of the Cooperage[321]
XVI.Jelland’s Voyage[340]
XVII.B. 24[351]
“I burst with a Shriek into my own Life.”[Frontispiece].
(From a drawing by A. Castaigne.)

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