A Mystery Story for Girls
The
CRYSTAL BALL
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
Printed in the United States of America
COPYRIGHT 1936
BY
THE REILLY & LEE CO.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I Midnight Blue Velvet 11
- II “Just Nothing at All” 28
- III Danger Tomorrow 36
- IV The “Tiger Woman” 45
- V Florence Gazes into the Crystal 51
- VI Gypsies That Are Not Gypsies 62
- VII The Bright Shawl 75
- VIII A Vision for Another 86
- IX Jeanne Plans an Adventure 104
- X A Voodoo Priestess 113
- XI Fireside Reflections 128
- XII Jeanne’s Fortune 134
- XIII A Startling Revelation 148
- XIV Fire Destroys All 157
- XV The Interpreter of Dreams 169
- XVI The Secret of Lost Lake 177
- XVII From Out the Past 189
- XVIII D.X.123 195
- XIX One Wild Dream 199
- XX Some Considerable Treasure 213
- XXI Battle Royal 228
- XXII Little Lady in Gray 238
- XXIII Strange Treasure 252
- XXIV Through the Picture 266
- XXV A Visit in the Night 274
- XXVI In Which Some Things Are Well Finished 279
THE CRYSTAL BALL
CHAPTER I
MIDNIGHT BLUE VELVET
Florence Huyler read the numberon the door. She wondered at the lackof light from within; the glass of the doorwas like a slab of ebony.
“No one here,” she murmured. “Just myluck.”
For all that, she put out a hand to graspthe knob. In a city office building, ten storiesup, one does not knock. Florence did not somuch as allow the yielding door to make asound. She turned the knob as one imaginesa robber might turn the dial of a safe—slowly,si