The Trevor case

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Copyright, 1912, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published February, 1912

Printed in the United States of America

TO THE MEMORY OF
MY DEAR FATHER
AND
TO MY KINDEST CRITIC
MY MOTHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Face to Face	[1]
II.	The Secret of the Safe	[4]
III.	At the Macallisters’	[14]
IV.	The Inquest	[26]
V.	The Signet Ring	[42]
VI.	The Verdict	[59]
VII.	Wheels Within Wheels	[68]
VIII.	The Challenge	[81]
IX.	“Main 6”	[91]
X.	Caught on the Wires	[109]
XI.	Behind Closed Doors	[127]
XII.	Blind Clews	[148]
XIII.	The Threat	[168]
XIV.	Hand and Pin	[183]
XV.	Man Proposes	[196]
XVI.	Playing With Fire	[204]
XVII.	Across the Potomac	[212]
XVIII.	Nip and Tuck	[222]
XIX.	The Conference	[228]
XX.	Casting of Nets	[240]
XXI.	Forging the Fetters	[263]
XXII.	At the Time Appointed	[280]
XXIII.	The Lifting of the Cloud	[306]
XXIV.	Journeys End in Lovers’ Meeting	[322]

THE TREVOR CASE

CHAPTER I
FACE TO FACE

A faint, very faint scratching noise broke the stillness. Then a hand was thrust through the hole in the window pane; deftly the burglar alarm was disconnected, and the fingers fumbled with the catch of the window. The sash was pushed gently up, and a man’s figure was outlined for a second against the star-lit sky as he dropped noiselessly through the window to the stair landing.

For a few moments he crouched behind the heavy curtains, but his entry had been too noiseless to awaken the sleeping household. Gathering courage from the stillness around him, the intruder stole down the steps, through the broad hall, and stopped before a door on his left. Cautiously he turned the knob and entered the room.