_By_ ERNEST W. HORNUNG
Author of Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman, The Thousandth Woman, etc.
_With Illustrations by_
FREDERIC DORR STEELE
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
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COPYRIGHT 1914
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