Copyright, 1923
by
The Reilly & Lee Co.
All Rights Reserved
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE [I A Mysterious Visitor] 7 [II Elusive Shakespeare] 19 [III The Gargoyle] 30 [IV What the Gargoyle Might Tell] 40 [V The Papier-Mache Lunch Box] 50 [VI “One Can Never Tell”] 62 [VII The Vanishing Portland Chart] 73 [VIII What Was In the Papier-Mache Lunch Box] 81 [IX Shadowed] 94 [X Mysteries of the Sea] 102 [XI Lucile Shares Her Secret] 111 [XII The Trial By Fire] 121 [XIII In the Mystery Room at Night] 131 [XIV A Strange Request] 138 [XV A Strange Journey] 143 [XVI Night Visitors] 155 [XVII A Battle in the Night] 166 [XVIII Frank Morrow Joins in the Hunt] 176 [XIX Lucile Solves No Mystery] 190 [XX “That Was the Man”] 199 [XXI A Theft in the Night] 211 [XXII Many Mysteries] 218 [XXIII Inside the Lines] 228 [XXIV Secrets Revealed] 235 [XXV Better Days] 242
The Secret Mark
CHAPTER I
A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
Lucile Tucker’s slim, tapered fingers trembled slightly as she rested them against a steel-framed bookcase. She had paused to steady her shaken nerves, to collect her wits, to determine what her next move should be.
“Who can it be?” her madly thumping heart kept asking her.
And, indeed, who, besides herself, could be in the book stacks at this hour of the night?
About her, ranging tier on tier, towering from floor to ceiling, were books, thousands on thousands of books. The two floors above were full of books. The two below were the same. This place was a perfect maze of books. It was one of the sections of a great library, the library of one of the finest universities of the United States.
In all this vast “city of books” she had thought herself quite alone.