CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THROUGH MY NEIGHBOUR'S WINDOWS

CHAPTER II I AM INVOLVED IN THE CASE

CHAPTER III A CORONER'S INQUEST

CHAPTER IV UNWILLING WITNESSES

CHAPTER V MRS. ATKINS HOLDS SOMETHING BACK

CHAPTER VI A LETTER AND ITS ANSWER

CHAPTER VII MR. MERRITT INSTRUCTS ME

CHAPTER VIII AN IDENTIFICATION

CHAPTER IX I INSTRUCT MR. MERRITT.

CHAPTER X THE MISSING HAT

CHAPTER XI MADAME ARGOT'S MAD HUSBAND.

CHAPTER XII A PROFESSIONAL VISIT OUT OF TOWN

CHAPTER XIII MR. AND MRS. ATKINS AT HOME

CHAPTER XIV MY HYSTERICAL PATIENT

CHAPTER XV A SUDDEN FLIGHT

CHAPTER XVI THAT TACTLESS DETECTIVE

CHAPTER XVII ONE WOMAN EXONERATED

CHAPTER XVIII THE TRUTH OF THE WHOLE MATTER

By
Elizabeth Kent

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1903

Copyright 1902
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

Published, August, 1902
Reprinted, January, 1903; March, 1903; October, 1903

The Knickerbocker Press, New York