OF A MASTER CRIMINAL

CONTENTS

I[The Puzzling Passenger]
II[The Man in the Dark]
III[The Beginning of the Search]
IV[A Lady Interrupts]
V[The Man Who Denied]
VI[Fresh Fields]
VII[The Sentence of Banishment]
VIII[Count Michæl Temesvar]
IX[Pauline]
X[The Greater Game]
XI[Anthony Plays His Hand]
XII[Saint Anthony]
XIII[Down to the Sea]
XIV[The Cabinet Meeting]
XV[Anthony the Triumphant]

[Chapter One]

THE PUZZLING PASSENGER

"Stop him," the second officer yelled, "he's going to jump overboard!"

The man who dashed past him and through a group of passengers waving hands at friends on the deck below, was too quick for those who sought to stay him. He balanced himself for a moment on the rail and then jumped ten feet down to the pier.