The Ballad of Mulan and Chinese Legends

THE TENANT OF THE SILENT HOUSE Lucian Denzil was a briefless barrister, who so far departed from the traditions of his brethren of the long robe as not to dwell within the purlieu...

SHADOWS ON THE BLIND The landlady of Denzil was a rather uncommon specimen of the class. She inclined to plumpness, was lively in the extreme, wore very fashionable garments of th...

AN UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATION "Mr. Berwin!" cried Lucian, recognising the man. "Is it you?" "Who else should it be?" replied Berwin, bending forward to see who had jostled him. "...

MRS. KEBBY'S DISCOVERY The pertinacity which Berwin displayed in insisting that Lucian should explore the Silent House was truly remarkable. He appeared to be bent upon banishing ...

THE TALK OF THE TOWN Nowadays, events, political, social, and criminal, crowd so closely on one another's heels that what was formerly a nine days' wonder is scarcely marvelled at...

MRS. VRAIN'S STORY Denzil was much pleased with the courtesy of the detective Link in permitting him to gain, at first hand, further details of this mysterious case. With a natura...

THE ASSURANCE MONEY Mrs. Vrain's fainting fit was of no great duration, and she shortly recovered her senses, but not her sprightliness. Her excuse was that the long discussion of...

DIANA VRAIN Although over three months had elapsed since the murder of Mark Vrain, and the crime had been relegated to oblivion both by press and people, curiosity concerning it w...

A MARRIAGE THAT WAS A FAILURE Denzil did not reply at once to the accusation levelled by Diana at Mrs. Vrain, as he was too astonished at her vehemence to find his voice readily. ...

THE PARTI-COLOURED RIBBON The beauty and high spirit of Diana made so deep an impression on Lucian that he determined to aid her by every means in his power in searching for the a...

FURTHER DISCOVERIES The silence which followed Diana's announcement regarding the ribbon and stiletto--for Lucian kept silence out of sheer astonishment--was broken by the hoarse ...

THE VEIL AND ITS OWNER As may be surmised, Lucian was considerably startled by the discovery of this important evidence so confirmative of Diana's suspicions. Yet the knowledge wh...

GOSSIP Going by circumstantial evidence, Diana certainly had good grounds to accuse Mrs. Vrain of committing the crime, for there were four points at least which could be proved p...

THE HOUSE IN JERSEY STREET As her listeners made no comment on Miss Tyler's accusation of Mrs. Vrain, she paused only for a moment to recover her breath, and was off again in full...

RHODA AND THE CLOAK The one servant of Mrs. Bensusan was a girl of seventeen, who had a local fame in the neighbourhood on account of her sharp tongue and many precocious qualitie...

MRS. VRAIN AT BAY "You saw the dark man in the back yard on Christmas Eve?" repeated Lucian, much surprised by this discovery. "Yes, I did," replied Rhoda decisively, "at half-pa...

A DENIAL "What do you know of the stiletto?" repeated Mrs. Vrain anxiously. She had risen to her feet, and, with an effort to be calm, was holding on to the near chair. Her brigh...

WHO BOUGHT THE CLOAK? Mrs. Vrain sacrificed the vanity of a lengthy toilette to a natural anxiety to set herself right with Lucian, and appeared shortly in a ravishing costume fre...

THE DEFENCE OF COUNT FERRUCI "It is quite impossible!" cried Mrs. Vrain distractedly. "I can't believe it nohow!" The little woman was back again in her own drawing-room, talking...

A NEW DEVELOPMENT "You see, Mr. Denzil," said Ferruci, turning triumphantly to Lucian, "I did not buy this cloak; I am not the Italian this lady speaks of." Lucian was extremely ...

TWO MONTHS PASS Unwilling to give up prosecuting the Vrain case while the slightest hope remained of solving its mystery, Lucian sought out Link, the detective, and detailed all t...

AT BERWIN MANOR The heritage of Diana lay some miles from Bath, in a pleasant wooded valley, through which meandered a placid and slow-flowing stream. On either side of this water...

A STARTLING THEORY When Diana declared that her father yet lived, Lucian drew back from her in amazement, for of all impossible things said of this impossible case this saying of ...

LUCIAN IS SURPRISED Although Denzil received Mr. Clyne with all courtesy, and promised to aid him, if he could, in breaking off the marriage with Ferruci, by revealing his true ch...

A DARK PLOT "So Vrain is alive, after all!" was Lucian's comment on the speech of Jorce, "and he is here under your charge? Jove! it's wonderful! Diana was right, after all!" "Di...

THE OTHER MAN'S WIFE As soon as Lucian arrived back in his rooms he sat down at his desk and wrote a long letter to Diana, giving a full account of his extraordinary discovery of ...

A CONFESSION Now, indeed, Lucian had his hands full. Rhoda, the red-headed servant of Mrs. Bensusan, had run away on the plea that she was afraid of something--what she did not ex...

THE NAME OF THE ASSASSIN That afternoon London was ringing with the news of Ferruci's suicide; but no paper could give any reason for the rash act. This inability was due to the p...

LINK SETS A TRAP In the course of their acquaintance, Diana had put up with a great deal from the little American adventuress, owing to her position of stepmother, but when she he...

WHO FELL INTO THE TRAP? However closely one may study the fair sex, there is no understanding them in the least. No one can say how a woman will act in a given situation; for femi...

A STRANGE CONFESSION "I, Jabez Clyne, write this confession in my prison cell, of my own free will, and without coercion from any one; partly because I know that the evidence conc...

THE CONFESSION (_Continued_) "In Geneva Square, Pimlico, I found the house I wanted. It was No. 13, and was said to be haunted, as cries had been heard in it at night, and lights ...

WHAT RHODA HAD TO SAY Of all the news concerning the truth of Clear's death, this was the last which Lucian expected to hear. He stood staring at the excited face of the detective...

THE END OF IT ALL Two years after the discovery of Rhoda's guilt, Mr. and Mrs. Denzil were seated in the garden of Berwin Manor. It was a perfect summer evening, at the sunset hou...