SECOND EDITION

Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.

CHAP.		PAGE
I	The Mayor's Parlour	[1]
II	The Cambric Handkerchief	[14]
III	The Tannery House	[27]
IV	Bull's Snug	[41]
V	Sleeping Fires	[53]
VI	The Ancient Office of Coroner	[67]
VII	The Voluntary Witness	[80]
VIII	Mrs. Saumarez	[93]
IX	The Right to Intervene	[107]
X	The Cat in the Bag	[121]
XI	The Nineteen Minutes' Interval	[132]
XII	Circumstantial Evidence	[143]
XIII	A Woman Intervenes	[153]
XIV	Whose Voices?	[164]
XV	The Special Edition	[174]
XVI	The Castle Wall	[185]
XVII	Impregnable	[196]
XVIII	Loose Strands	[208]
XIX	Black Secrets and Red Tape	[221]
XX	The Fell Hand	[235]
XXI	Corruption	[246]
XXII	The Parlour-maid	[258]
XXIII	The Connecting Wall	[268]
XXIV	Behind the Panel	[280]
XXV	The Empty Room	[291]

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