Copyright, 1908
By J. B. Lippincott Company
Published April, 1908
Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

TO
ALICE MUMFORD ROBERTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Girl in the Hansom Cab[ 11]
II. The Dark House in Selden’s Square[ 20]
III. In the Face of Strange Dangers[ 31]
IV. Kenyon is Drawn Deeper in the Maze[ 41]
V. Garry Webster, of Chicago[ 52]
VI. Kenyon has Another Odd Experience[ 68]
VII. The Bellevue Hospital Puzzle[ 78]
VIII. The Night Grows Thick with Wonder[ 92]
IX. Kenyon Goes Blindly On[ 102]
X. Hong Yo Strikes a Blow[ 111]
XI. The Second Night Ends[ 121]
XII. And the Third Night Begins[ 133]
XIII. Kenyon Meets an Old Acquaintance[ 143]
XIV. The Uninvited Guest[ 151]
XV. Kenyon in a New Rôle[ 167]
XVI. Kenyon Calls on the Man from Saginaw [ 176]
XVII. At the Girls’ Club in Mulberry Street[ 193]
XVIII. Kenyon Shows His Metal[ 204]
XIX. On Board the Vixen[ 217]
XX. Baffled[ 226]
XXI. Kenyon Begins to See the Light[ 240]
XXII. The Light Grows Stronger[ 251]
XXIII. What Kenyon Heard and Saw[ 265]
XXIV. Conclusion[ 273]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
A Small White Hand Darted over His Shoulder[ Frontispiece]
All the Time Her Gaze Was Fixed upon the Two[ 73]
He Stood for a Moment in the Doorway[ 117]
Kenyon Touched One End of the Slip to a Flame[ 292]

In the Dead of Night

I
THE GIRL IN THE HANSOM CAB

“Mysteries, my boy, are always things of the night.”
A Saying of Garry Webster.

Kenyon ate the good little German dinner which the Berlin always served, and looked amusedly out upon Broadway.