JUST BEFORE WE WERE OFF A TELEGRAM CAME TO HER, WHICH SHE READ AND HASTILY STUFFED INTO A POCKET OF HER RIDING HABIT


CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I. The Social Gangster]
[CHAPTER II. The Cabaret Rouge]
[CHAPTER III. The Fox Hunt]
[CHAPTER IV. The Tango Thief]
[CHAPTER V. The "Thé Dansant"]
[CHAPTER VI. The Serum Diagnosis]
[CHAPTER VII. The Diamond Queen]
[CHAPTER VIII. The Anesthetic Vaporizer]
[CHAPTER IX. The Twilight Sleep]
[CHAPTER X. The Sixth Sense]
[CHAPTER XI. The Infernal Machines]
[CHAPTER XII. The Submarine Bell]
[CHAPTER XIII. The Super-Toxin]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Secret Agents]
[CHAPTER XV. The Germ of Anthrax]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Sleepmaker]
[CHAPTER XVII. The Inter-Urban Handicap]
[CHAPTER XVIII. The Toxin of Fatigue]
[CHAPTER XIX. The X-Ray Detective]
[CHAPTER XX. The Mechanical Connoisseur]
[CHAPTER XXI. The Radiograph Witness]
[CHAPTER XXII. The Absolute Zero]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Vacuum Bottle]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Solar Plexus]
[CHAPTER XXV. The Demon Engine]
[CHAPTER XXVI. The Electrolysis Clew]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Perpetual Motion Machine]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. The Cancer House]
[CHAPTER XXIX. The Quack Doctors]
[CHAPTER XXX. The Filterable Virus]
[CHAPTER XXXI. The Voodoo Mystery]
[CHAPTER XXXII. The Fluoriscine Test]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. The Respiration Calorimeter]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. The Evil Eye]
[CHAPTER XXXV. The Buried Treasure]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. The Weed of Madness]


THE SOCIAL GANGSTER


CHAPTER I

THE SOCIAL GANGSTER

"I'm so worried over Gloria, Professor Kennedy, that I hardly know what I'm doing."