The Blue Wall

A PICTURE THERE AMONG THE LAW BOOKS

THE BLUE WALL A STORY OF STRANGENESS
AND STRUGGLE BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS



Book I — The Problem of MacMechem

I.	The House Next Door	[3]
II.	A Moving Figure	[22]


Book II — The Automatic Sheik

I.	A Woman At Twenty-Two	[39]
II.	A Pledge to the Judge	[65]
III.	The Torn Scrap	[80]
IV.	The Face	[101]
V.	At Dawn	[126]
VI.	The Moving Figure Again	[137]


Book III — The Doctor’s Limousine

I.	A Shadow on the Curtain	[157]
II.	Margaret	[170]


Book IV — A Pupil of the Great Welstoke

I.	Les Trois Folies	[181]
II.	The House on the River	[196]
III.	A Visitor At Night	[219]
IV.	A Suppression of the Truth	[240]
V.	Again the Moving Figure	[261]


Book V — The Man with the White Teeth

I.	Blades of Grass	[283]
II.	In the Painted Garden	[292]


Book VI — A Puppet of the Passions

I.	The Vanished Dream	[301]
II.	Mary Vance	[312]
III.	The Ghost	[323]


Book VII — TThe Paneled Door

I.	The Scratching Sound	[337]


Book VIII — From the Woman’s Hand

I.	The Voice of the Blood	[351]
II.	This New Thing	[362]


Book IX — Behind the Wall

I.	An Answer to Macmechem	[371]
II.	“Why Care?”	[378]

Illustrations

A Picture There Among the Law Books	[Frontispiece]
Listen to Me, Estabrook!	[120]
It Must Be Julianna	[238]
She Did Not Speak. She Seemed in Doubt	[372]

From drawings by Harold J. Cue.

BOOK I THE PROBLEM OF MACMECHEM

The Blue Wall