The Riddle of the Night

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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