The Keeper of the Door

by Ethel M. Dell

Fourth Impression

BY ETHEL M. DELL

The Way of an Eagle
The Knave of Diamonds
The Rocks of Valpré
The Swindler
The Keeper of the Door
Bars of Iron
Rosa Mundi
The Obstacle Race
Tetherstones
The Passerby and Other Stories
The Hundredth Chance
The Safety Curtain
Greatheart
The Lamp in the Desert
The Tidal Wave
The Top of the World
The Odds and Other Stories
Charles Rex
The Unknown Quantity
A Man Under Authority

This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers G.P.
PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press, New York Made in the United States of America

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF ONE WHO WAITS BEYOND THE DOOR FOR THOSE HE LOVES

"And the keepers before the door kept the prison."

Acts xii. 6.

"A deep below the deep
And a height beyond the height!
Our hearing is not hearing,
And our seeing is not sight."

The Voice and the Peak.