Copyright, 1924, by
Street and Smith Corporation
Copyright, 1927, by
The Dial Press, Inc.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y.

To
JOSEPH A. FAUROT
A GREAT FINDER OF WANTED MEN

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[A Note on Disappearing][xi]
I.[The Charlie Ross Enigma][1]
II.[“Severed from the Race”][23]
III.[The Vanished Archduke][40]
IV.[The Stolen Conway Boy][65]
V.[The Lost Heir of Tichborne][82]
VI.[The Kidnappers of Central Park][101]
VII.[Dorothy Arnold][120]
VIII.[Eddie Cudahy and Pat Crowe][133]
IX.[The Whitla Kidnapping][153]
X.[The Mystery at Highbridge][171]
XI.[A Nun in Vivisepulture][187]
XII.[The Return of Jimmie Glass][203]
XIII.[The Fates and Joe Varotta][219]
XIV.[The Lost Millionaire][237]
XV.[The Ambrose Bierce Irony][257]
XVI.[The Adventure of the Century][273]
XVII.[Spectral Ships][292]
[Bibliography][313]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Scene of the Abduction of Charlie Ross][Frontispiece]
TO FACE PAGE
[Charlie Ross][10]
[Theodosia Burr][32]
[Millie Stübel][44]
[Archduke Johann Salvator][56]
[Arthur Orton][94]
[Marion Clarke][110]
[Dorothy Arnold][126]
[Pat Crowe][146]
[Jimmie Glass][204]
[Joe Varotta][220]
[Ambrose J. Small][240]
[Ambrose Bierce][260]
[Doctor Andrée][280]
[U. S. S. Cyclops][304]

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun,

His day’s work and his night’s work are undone;

And lo, between the nightfall and the light,