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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Solitary Passenger[9]
II.The Procurator Fiscal[16]
III.The Heir[23]
IV.The Man from the West[31]
V.The Third Visitor[40]
VI.At Night[48]
VII.The Drive Home[56]
VIII.Sir Reginald[67]
IX.A Philosopher[74]
X.The Letter[80]
XI.News[89]
XII.Cicely[100]
XIII.The Deductive Process[106]
XIV.The Question of Motive[114]
XV.Two Women[123]
XVI.Rumour[128]
XVII.A Suggestion[135]
XVIII.£1200[143]
XIX.The Empty Compartment[148]
XX.The Sporting Visitor[154]
XXI.Mr. Carrington's Walk[161]
XXII.Mr. Carrington and the Fiscal[168]
XXIII.Simon's Views[176]
XXIV.Mr. Bisset's Assistant[185]
XXV.A Telegram[196]
XXVI.At Stanesland[201]
XXVII.Flight[209]
XXVIII.The Return[216]
XXIX.Brother and Sister[224]
XXX.A Marked Man[229]
XXXI.The Letter Again[240]
XXXII.The Sympathetic Stranger[247]
XXXIII.The House of Mysteries[253]
XXXIV.A Confidential Conversation[261]
XXXV.In the Garden[271]
XXXVI.The Walking Stick[278]
XXXVII.Bisset's Advice[285]
XXXVIII.Trapped[291]
XXXIX.The Yarn[301]
XL.The Last Chapter[312]

SIMON

I

THE SOLITARY PASSENGER

The train had come a long journey and the afternoon was wearing on. The passenger in the last third class compartment but one, looking out of the window sombrely and intently, saw nothing now but desolate brown hills and a winding lonely river, very northern looking under the autumnal sky.