"He glared at the clasp as if the diamond and
sapphire eye were a miniature head of Medusa"

THE GREAT PEARL
SECRET

BY

C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

FRONTISPIECE
BY
JULIAN DE MISKEY

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

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

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

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. [In Juliet's Sitting Room]
II. [The Explanation]
III. ["To Meet the Duchess"]
IV. [The Letter with the Tsarina's Seal]
V. [The Third Ringer of the Bell]
VI. [Behind the Bookshelf]
VII. [What Juliet Told Jack]
VIII. [Juliet Breaks the Seals]
IX. [The Eye That Looked to the Right]
X. [The House in a Crosstown Street]
XI. [In Jack's Private Sitting Room]
XII. ["The 'Whisperer' Stuff"]
XIII. [A Woman's Eyes]
XIV. [Supper at Twelve]
XV. [The Fortune Teller]
XVI. [The Grey Room]
XVII. [The Crystal]
XVIII. [The Bargain]
XIX. [Old Nick]
XX. [The Third Degree]
XXI. [The Middle Door]
XXII. [The Whole of the Secret]