[CHAPTER I. An Urgent Summons]
[CHAPTER II. A Bride's Vagary]
[CHAPTER III. The Lover's Story]
[CHAPTER IV. A Strange Message]
[CHAPTER V. Deeper in the Maze]
[CHAPTER VI. An Astonishing Request]
[CHAPTER VII. Tangled Threads]
[CHAPTER VIII. The Path through the Grove]
[CHAPTER IX. The Old Sorrow]
[CHAPTER X. The Mysterious Light]
[CHAPTER XI. An Old Acquaintance]
[CHAPTER XII. Word from the Fugitive]
[CHAPTER XIII. Pursuit]
[CHAPTER XIV. Recalled to the Front]
[CHAPTER XV. A Battle of Wits]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Secret of the Cellar]
[CHAPTER XVII. A Tragedy Unforeseen]
[CHAPTER XVIII. A New Turn to the Puzzle]
[CHAPTER XIX. Under Suspicion]
[CHAPTER XX. An Appeal for Advice]
[CHAPTER XXI. Cross-Purposes]
[CHAPTER XXII. Light at Last!]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Story]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Secret]
[CHAPTER XXV. The Revelation]
[CHAPTER XXVI. The Return]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Curtain Lifts]
[BY BURTON E. STEVENSON]
[BOOKS BY MAY SINCLAIR]
[BOOKS BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN]
[OTHER BOOKS]
THAT AFFAIR AT ELIZABETH
CHAPTER I
An Urgent Summons
"That seems to be all right, Lester," said Mr. Royce, and handed the papers back to me. "I'll be mighty glad when we get that off our hands."
So, I knew, would the whole force of the office, for the case had been an unusually irritating one, tangling itself up in the most unexpected ways, until, with petitions and counter-petitions and answers and demurrers and what not, we were all heartily tired of it. I slipped the papers into an envelope and shot them into a pigeon-hole with a sigh of relief.
"I think that'll end it," I said. "I don't see how there can be any further delay."
"No," agreed our junior, "neither do I. Are the papers in the Griffin case ready?"