In Jeopardy

_I Find Some New Relations_ The letter which lay before me had been written in old-fashioned longhand on the business stationery of the law firm of Eldon & Crawford, their given a...

_The Setting of the Stage_ S. Saviour's, with its tiny portico and steeple of distinctly Christopher Wren design, presented an interesting study in colonial architecture. It was b...

_Hildebrand of the "Hundred"_ It must have been close to an hour before Mr. Eldon joined us; evidently his papers had been in more than usual confusion. A few minutes later the la...

_Some Hypothetical Questions_ Dinner was not a particularly cheerful meal. I had to take the head of the table, and therefore sat in the chair so lately vacated by my Cousin Franc...

_The Missing Link_ "I beg your pardon," repeated Doctor Marcy, looking at me uncertainly. "I should beg yours, doctor," I answered as easily as I could. Some sixth sense had made...

"_Madame Colette Marinette._" Dr. Marcy was the first person to join me in the breakfast room the following morning. To my surprise, he informed me that Mr. Fielding Thaneford had...

_The Whispering Gallery_ The long afternoon went by, but we had accomplished nothing more than the consumption of an unlimited amount of tobacco. "Certainly not convincing eviden...

_Adventuring on "Sugar Loaf"_ It was a glorious summer morning, and as I descended the staircase I could look through the wide opened door and see the rolling acres of "Hildebrand...

_1-4-2-4-8_ A full fortnight went by, and we seemed to be simply marking time. Warriner was still away, and I had had no word of importance from him. Mr. Fielding Thaneford's cond...

_I Receive an Ultimatum_ Fielding Thaneford was buried three days later in S. Saviour's churchyard. As relatives, even in remote degree, we were bound to attend the services, and ...

_The Rider of the Black Horse_ Given the exigency, and through what tortuous and secret channels will not the human mind seek to communicate with its kind! Call it telepathy or wh...

_Safe Find, Safe Bind_ Let me now pass over some six months concerning which there are no events of particular moment to be recorded--I mean in connection with the tragedy. Late ...

_Le Chiffre Indechiffrable_ During the world war I had been on duty in the intelligence department, and I had taken much interest in the science of cryptography, although not conn...

Betty thought she did, and seemed so interested that I was emboldened to assume my best lecture manner. "Under the second head we may consider the mechanical device known as the g...

_Another Break in the Circle_ It was the first of June and the loveliest time of the year at the "Hundred." Why had I never realized before that, in spite of my urban upbringing, ...

_One Corner of the Veil_ The MS. began abruptly, without either preamble or address: I am sitting here in the library of "Hildebrand Hundred"--the room in which five me...

_Ad Interim_ I never sent for Warriner to come and discuss Eunice Trevor's astonishing communication. Why? Well, what would have been the use? After all, the woman had told us lit...

_The Midsummer Night's Ball_ And now I come to a certain chapter of my book of life which I would fain leave unwritten. But I am bound to set down the full truth, no matter how un...

_I Break a Promise_ Needless to say that the summer dragged heavily with me. Betty wrote regularly, but her letters were of a strictly impersonal nature, and I took especial care ...

_The Seat Perilous_ Wednesday, the twentieth of June, was the blackest of all black days. When Betty's letter came I found it very unsatisfactory reading. Warriner had been making...

_The Blind Terror_ For three days I wandered in a phantasmagoric wilderness, my principal obsession making me identify myself with that pair of Hebrew spies staggering under the w...

_A Lost Clue_ "Suppose we admit, for the sake of argument," began Betty "that John Thaneford was in possession of the secret. Then everything points back to his father, old Fieldi...

and especially since he and I had become friends of a sort, he was willing to bury the hatchet. So he told all he could--you remember that he couldn't speak--and he seemed to feel ...

_The Grapes of Wrath_ Thane Court, August third, eighteen-ninety-two. Now that a son is born to me, Fielding Thaneford of King William county, Maryland, it is fitti...

_The End of the Coil_ Warriner laid the book on the table, and pulled out his pipe. I think it was a full five minutes before any of us said a word. But Betty kept her hand close-...