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Chink in the Armour, by Marie Belloc Lowndes
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Title: The Chink in the Armour
Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes
Release Date: September 10, 2005 [EBook #16677]
Language: English
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THE CHINK IN THE ARMOUR
BY MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES
AUTHOR OF "THE END OF HER HONEYMOON," "THE LODGER," Etc.
1912
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP
"But there is one chink in the chain armour of civilized communities. Society is conducted on the assumption that murder will not be committed."--
The Spectator.
CHAPTER I
A small, shiny, pink card lay on the round table in Sylvia Bailey's sitting-room at the Hôtel de l'Horloge in Paris.
She had become quite accustomed to finding one or more cards--cards from dressmakers, cards from corset-makers, cards from hairdressers--lying on her sitting-room table, but there had never been a card quite like this card.
Although it was pink, it looked more like a visiting-card than a tradesman's advertisement, and she took it