AUTHOR OF ALIAS THE LONE WOLF, THE DARK MIRROR, Etc.

ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES
FROM THE PHOTOPLAY
A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Published by Arrangement with E. P. Dutton & Company

Copyright, 1923
By INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE CO. (COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE)

Copyright, 1923
By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

All rights reserved, including the rights of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

First printing, August, 1923
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Eighth printing, October, 1923
Ninth printing, December, 1923

Printed in the United States of America


To
FRANK EDWIN VERNEY

because he asked for more and because there won't be any more


Note—This is the fifth, and in the intention of the author the last, of the Lone Wolf stories. Although in strict sense a sequel it is, like "The Lone Wolf," "The False Faces," "Red Masquerade," and "Alias the Lone Wolf," entirely self-contained and able to stand on its own plot.

If anybody else cares . . .

Louis Joseph Vance.

Darien, August, 1923.