The Riddle of the Night
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Hanshew Thomas W.. The Riddle of the Night
CHAPTER ONE. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
CHAPTER TWO. HOW THE CHASE ENDED
CHAPTER THREE. THE SHADOW THAT LAY BEHIND
CHAPTER FOUR. CLEWS AND SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER FIVE. THE RIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER SIX. A LITTLE DISCREPANCY
CHAPTER SEVEN "COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE"
CHAPTER EIGHT. AILSA LORNE
CHAPTER NINE. BLIND GROPING
CHAPTER TEN. ANOTHER STRAND IN THE WEB
CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE CLOUDBURST
CHAPTER TWELVE. THE THUNDERBOLT
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. A QUESTION OF VERACITY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. A CHANGE IN THE PROGRAM
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. A CLEW FROM THE AIR
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. A BOLD STROKE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. A BLUNDER AND A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. SPRINGING A SURPRISE
CHAPTER NINETEEN. PICKING UP THREADS
CHAPTER TWENTY "HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH"
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. WHEN TWO AND TWO MAKE FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. WHEN FOUR AND FOUR MAKE EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. THE LADY AT THE GATE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. THE MOUSETRAP
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. THE OPEN WINDOW
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. THE VIEW HALLOO
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. LOISETTE IS VINDICATED
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE "QUICK! FIRE!"
CHAPTER THIRTY. NEARING THE TRUTH!
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. HOW THE TRUTH WAS TOLD
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It was half-past eleven on the night of Wednesday, April 14th, when the well-known red limousine of Mr. Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, came abruptly to the head of Mulberry Lane, which, as you may possibly know, is a narrow road skirting one of the loneliest and wildest portions of Wimbledon Common.
Lennard, the chauffeur, put on the brake with such suddenness that the car seemed actually to rise from the earth, performed a sort of buzzing and snorting semicircle, and all but collided with the rear wall of Wuthering Grange before coming to a halt in the narrow road space which lay between that wall and the tree-fringed edge of the great Common.
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"Whatever the fellow did or wherever he went, he can't have gone far, so look sharp, my lads!" commanded Narkom. "If we're quick we're sure to nab him. Come along, Constable, come along, Keeper. Lennard, you stop where you are and guard the exit from the arch, so if he doubles on us he can't get by you!"
"Right you are, sir!" responded Lennard, as the superintendent and the four men made a dash toward that end of the arch through which the keeper was so positive the fugitive had come.
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