COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Contents

Book I — The Problem of MacMechem
I.The House Next Door[3]
II.A Moving Figure[22]
Book II — The Automatic Sheik
I.A Woman At Twenty-Two[39]
II.A Pledge to the Judge[65]
III.The Torn Scrap[80]
IV.The Face[101]
V.At Dawn[126]
VI.The Moving Figure Again[137]
Book III — The Doctor’s Limousine
I.A Shadow on the Curtain[157]
II.Margaret[170]
Book IV — A Pupil of the Great Welstoke
I.Les Trois Folies[181]
II.The House on the River[196]
III.A Visitor At Night[219]
IV.A Suppression of the Truth[240]
V.Again the Moving Figure[261]
Book V — The Man with the White Teeth
I.Blades of Grass[283]
II.In the Painted Garden[292]
Book VI — A Puppet of the Passions
I.The Vanished Dream[301]
II.Mary Vance[312]
III.The Ghost[323]
Book VII — TThe Paneled Door
I.The Scratching Sound[337]
Book VIII — From the Woman’s Hand
I.The Voice of the Blood[351]
II.This New Thing[362]
Book IX — Behind the Wall
I.An Answer to Macmechem[371]
II.“Why Care?”[378]

Illustrations

A Picture There Among the Law Books[Frontispiece]
Listen to Me, Estabrook![120]
It Must Be Julianna[238]
She Did Not Speak. She Seemed in Doubt[372]

From drawings by Harold J. Cue.

BOOK I THE PROBLEM OF MACMECHEM