FERGUS HUME

AUTHOR OF
"THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB," "MONSIEUR JUDAS,"
"THE CARBUNCLE CLUE," "THE WHITE PRIOR,"
ETC.

LONDON
FREDERICK WARNE & CO.
AND NEW YORK

Copyright.
Entered at Stationers' Hall
.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER.
[I.]The Crime
[II.]A Recognition
[III.]The Result Of The Crime
[IV.]Another Discovery
[V.]The Red Star Advertisement
[VI.]A Startling Incident
[VII.]Difficulties
[VIII.]A Mysterious Parcel
[IX.]Vaud and Vaud
[X.]Exit Dr. Renshaw
[XI.]Another Link in the Chain
[XII.]The Intervention of Chance
[XIII.]The Tattooed Cross
[XIV.]Fanks Makes Up his Mind
[XV.]Coming Events
[XVI.]Unhappy Lovers
[XVII.]Two against One
[XVIII.]On the Twenty-First of June
[XIX.]The Defiance of Anne Colmer
[XX.]The Green Overcoat
[XXI.]The Eight Bells Enigma
[XXII.]Mrs. Boazoph Receives a Shock
[XXIII.]The Confession of Hersham
[XXIV.]The Clue of the Handwriting
[XXV.]At Mere Hall, Hants
[XXVI.]Mrs. Prisom's Story
[XXVII.]Mrs. Prisom's Story--continued
[XXVIII.]Sir Louis Explains
[XXIX.]Dr. Binjoy Protests
[XXX.]A Letter from Hersham, Senior
[XXXI.]The Secret is Revealed
[XXXII.]Mrs. Boazoph Tells the Truth
[XXXIII.]How and Why the Deed was Done
[XXXIV.]The Same
[XXXV.]The Opinion of Octavius Fanks