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THE

VANISHING OF TERA

BY

FERGUS HUME

AUTHOR OF
"THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB," "FOR THE DEFENCE,"
"THE LADY FROM NOWHERE," "THE THIRD VOLUME," "THE LONE INN,"
"THE NAMELESS CITY," "THE DWARF'S CHAMBER,"
"THE CARBUNCLE CLUE," ETC., ETC.

LONDON
F. V. WHITE & CO.

14, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1900

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
[I.]A King's Daughter
[II.]Pearls of Price
[III.]A Disappointment
[IV.]In the Cornfield
[V.]A Nine Days' Wonder
[VI.]Constable Slade's Discovery
[VII.]The Minister's Debts
[VIII.]Captain Jacob
[IX.]Miss Arnott
[X.]A Fresh Piece of Evidence
[XI.]"Thou art the Man"
[XII.]A Welcome Witness
[XIII.]Arrested
[XIV.]An Amazing Incident
[XV.]A Strange Story
[XVI.]The Man from Koiau
[XVII.]The Pearl
[XVIII.]Rachel
[XIX.]"The Truth will out"
[XX.]What Tera knew
[XXI.]"The End does not always justify the Means"
[XXII.]The Truth
[XXIII.]Trapped
[XXIV.] Nemesis