By the author of "OLD BROADBRIM."
[CONTENTS]
[CHAPTER I. OLD BROADBRIM'S STRANGE BARGAIN.]
[CHAPTER II. THE MIDNIGHT MURDER.]
[CHAPTER III. THE CLEW AND THE TALISMAN.]
[CHAPTER IV. THE LONDON TRAIL.]
[CHAPTER V. IN THE WAKE OF A MYSTERY.]
[CHAPTER VI. SPOTTED IN AUSTRALIA.]
[CHAPTER VII. THE TERRIBLE DEATH-TRAP.]
[CHAPTER VIII. DEMONA, THE RANCH QUEEN.]
[CHAPTER IX. OLD BROADBRIM ONCE MORE.]
[CHAPTER X. A TERRIBLE MOMENT.]
[CHAPTER XI. THE FACE IN THE HAY.]
[CHAPTER XII. OLD BROADBRIM AND THE FAIR AVENGER.]
[CHAPTER XIII. BLACK GEORGE'S WARNING.]
[CHAPTER XIV. THE TEST UNDER THE STARS.]
[CHAPTER XV. OLD BROADBRIM MAKES A BARGAIN AGAIN.]
[CHAPTER XVI. THE DOOM OF WATERS.]
[CHAPTER XVII. OLD BROADBRIM'S CATCH IN PERTH.]
[CHAPTER XVIII. BELLE DEMONA'S MATCH.]
[CHAPTER XIX. OLD BROADBRIM TIGHTENS THE COIL.]
[CHAPTER XX. BACK TO THE DEATH-TRAP.]
[CHAPTER XXI. THE ESCAPE OF THE DOOMED.]
[CHAPTER XXII. OLD BROADBRIM'S DESPERATE HAND.]
[CHAPTER XXIII. THE WOMAN WITH THE REVOLVER.]
[CHAPTER XXIV. THE QUAKER'S TRUMPS WIN.]
[CHAPTER I.]
OLD BROADBRIM'S STRANGE BARGAIN.
The 12th of April, 189—, as Old Broadbrim, the famous Quaker detective, will ever remember, fell on a Thursday.
Just after the noon hour on that day he received a letter asking him to come to one of the most elegant private residences on Fifth Avenue.