CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I A Present From China]
[CHAPTER II An Ominous Discovery]
[CHAPTER III I Don the Pajamas]
[CHAPTER IV Jenkins Declares for the Water Wagon]
[CHAPTER V The Girl from Radcliffe]
[CHAPTER VI Arcadian Simplicity]
[CHAPTER VII Confidences]
[CHAPTER VIII Her Brother Jack]
[CHAPTER IX An Amazing Revelation]
[CHAPTER X A Nocturnal Intrusion]
[CHAPTER XI Iron Nerve]
[CHAPTER XII I Send a Man to Jail]
[CHAPTER XIII Frances]
[CHAPTER XIV "You Never Saw Me in Black"]
[CHAPTER XV Billings' Symptoms Alarm Me]
[CHAPTER XVI An Inscription and a Mystery]
[CHAPTER XVII The Professor]
[CHAPTER XVIII I Receive a Shock]
[CHAPTER XIX The Spell of the Pajamas]
[CHAPTER XX Billings Rambles]
[CHAPTER XXI The Collapse of Billings]
[CHAPTER XXII My Darling Is Slandered]
[CHAPTER XXIII A Message and a Warning]
[CHAPTER XXIV I Speak to Her Father]
[CHAPTER XXV The Family Black Sheep]
[CHAPTER XXVI Flora]
[CHAPTER XXVII I Recover the Pajamas]
[CHAPTER XXVIII "If I Ever Find a Man!"]
[CHAPTER XXIX "Because You—Are You"]
[CHAPTER XXX The Judge Fixes "Foxy Grandpa"]
[CHAPTER XXXI The Demon Rum]
[CHAPTER XXXII I Touch Bottom]
[CHAPTER XXXIII Under the Pergola]
[CHAPTER XXXIV The Cub]
[CHAPTER XXXV In the Glow of the Rubies]
[TITLES FROM GROSSET & DUNLAP]
THE HAUNTED PAJAMAS
CHAPTER I
A PRESENT FROM CHINA
It was the first thing I saw that night as I swung into my chambers. Fact is, for the moment, it was the only thing I saw. Somehow, its splash of yellow there under the shaded lamp seemed to catch my eye and hold it.
I screwed my glass tight and examined the thing with interest. Nothing remarkable; just a tiny, oblong package, bearing curious foreign markings, its wrapper plainly addressed to me, but—
"By Jove! From China!" I ejaculated.