CHAPTER I SOME PHASES OF THE PROBLEM CHAPTER III A CHANGE OF ADDRESS CHAPTER X THE DIARY, AND ROSALIND CHAPTER XII THE SARACEN DAGGER CHAPTER XIII OSBORNE MAKES A VOW CHAPTER XVI WHEREIN TWO WOMEN TAKE THE FIELD CHAPTER XVII THE CLOSING SCENE By GORDON HOLMES A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE THE ARNCLIFFE PUZZLE THE LATE TENANT BY FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES THE DE BERCY AFFAIR TTHE HOUSE OF SILENCE Osborne came whispering Frontispiece The de Bercy Affair BY GORDON HOLMES AUTHOR OF A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, BY FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY [Illustration] NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1910 By EDWARD J. CLODE Entered at Stationers' Hall CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Some Phases of the Problem 1 II. Darkness 16 III. A Change of Address 31 IV. The New Life 51 V. The Missing Blade 66 VI. To Tormouth 88 VII. At Tormouth 107 VIII. At the Sun-dial 126 IX. The Letter 148 X. The Diary, and Rosalind 169 XI. Entrapped! 188 XII. The Saracen Dagger 206 XIII. Osborne Makes a Vow 224 XIV. The Arrests 246 XV. Clearing the Air 265 XVI. Wherein Two Women Take the Field 285 XVII. The Closing Scene 304 THE DE BERCY AFFAIR |