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Title: The Cab of the Sleeping Horse
Author: John Reed Scott
Release Date: February 18, 2005 [eBook #15094]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE CAB OF THE SLEEPING HORSE
by
JOHN REED SCOTT
Author of The Woman in Question, The Man In Evening Clothes, etc.
Frontispiece by William van Dresser
A. L. Burt Company Publishers New York Published by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons
1916
[Illustration: SHE THREW UP HER HAND, AND A NASTY LITTLE AUTOMATIC WAS COVERING THE SECRETARY'S HEART. Drawn by William Van Dresser. (Chapter 24)]
CONTENTS
I.--THE PHOTOGRAPH
II.--THE VOICE ON THE WIRE
III.--VISITORS
IV.--CRENSHAW
V.--ANOTHER WOMAN
VI.--THE GREY-STONE HOUSE
VII.--SURPRISES
VIII.--THE STORY
IX.--DECOYED
X.--SKIRMISHING
XI.--HALF A LIE
XII.--CARPENTER
XIII.--THE MARQUIS
XIV.--THE S