COPYRIGHT, 1919 BY

MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY

First Edition—June 1st, 1919

Second Edition—July 28th, 1919

TO

“A WILD STAR�

CONTENTS

I.[The Open Gate]
II.[Scotland Yard]
III.[The Cipher]
IV.[Saidee Isaacs]
V.[At Daybreak]
VI.[Edged Tools]
VII.[Passengers for Holland]
VIII.[Lurking Shadows]
IX.[Robbery under Arms]
X.[A Return Stroke]
XI.[Checkmated]
XII.[Smoked-glasses]
XIII.[The Long Arm]
XIV.[The House of the Lions]
XV.[Solved]

THE WHITE CIPHER
CHAPTER I
THE OPEN GATE

Swirled in the maze of a slow awakening, dropped through an abyss from zenith to nadir, the prisoner came out of his dreams and stared through the bars of his door to the pearl gray of the coming dawn.