BY
HENRY A. HERING
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
BY F. H. TOWNSEND

B. W. DODGE AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
1906

Copyright 1905, 1906,
BY
HENRY A. HERING.

THE TWELVE CHRONICLES.

page
I. Sir John Carder's Cigars[1]
II. The Bishop of Bister's Crozier[18]
III. The Luck of the Illingworths[38]
IV. The Fellmongers' Goblet[63]
V. An Ounce of Radium[87]
VI. The Bunyan MS.[109]
VII. The Great Seal[136]
VIII. The Lion and the Sun[158]
IX. The Horseshoe and the Peppercorn[184]
X. The Holbein Miniature[207]
XI. The Victoria Cross[233]
XII. The Last Chronicle[253]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"'MAY I ASK WHAT YOU EXPECT TO FIND HERE?'"[Frontispiece]

"MR. KASSALA HAD THEN THE PLEASURE OF INSPECTING THE CROZIER"

Face p. [26]

"HE SAW THE FIGURE PASS A WINDOW"

 [28]

"SHE HAD SHOWN HIM THE SECRET OF ITS HIDING-PLACE"

 [40]

"A CRY OF DESPAIR ESCAPED HIM"

 [50]

"'YOU ARE A THIEF'"

 [92]

"'I NEARLY BRUSHED AGAINST YOU'"

 [108]

"'HEY! BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT HOLE IN THE WINDOW?'"

 [134]

"'YOU MAY GO ON WITH YOUR MOST INTERESTING WORK'"

 [142]

"SUDDENLY HE ROSE, TOOK THE DRAFT OF THE TREATY, ETC."

 [174]

"INSTEAD OF THE DRAFT, THERE, ON A PURPLE VELVET CUSHION,
WAS THE GLITTERING ORDER OF THE LION AND THE SUN"

 [178]

"'SOFTLY, MY LORD,' SAID CUNNINGHAM, 'I AM COVERING YOU, YOU OBSERVE'"

 [192]

"THERE WAS THE UNMISTAKABLE SOUND OF AN APPROACHING CAR"

 [198]

"LUCAS DROPPED IT CAREFULLY INTO THE POCKET OF HIS NORFOLK JACKET"

 [218]

"HE WAS WALKING IN HIS SLEEP, CONSCIOUS OF NOTHING"

 [250]

"MR. MARVELL . . . THANKED THE COMPANY FOR THE GIFT, WHICH HE WOULD TREASURE"

 [278]