THE CIRCULAR STUDY
BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
1914
Copyright, 1900, by
Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.—A STRANGE CRIME.
CHAPTER I.—Red Light
CHAPTER II.—Mysteries
CHAPTER III.—The Mute Servitor
CHAPTER IV.—A New Experience for Mr. Gryce
CHAPTER V.—Five Small Spangles
CHAPTER VI.—Suggestions From an Old Friend
CHAPTER VII.—Amos's Son
CHAPTER VIII.—In the Round of the Staircase
CHAPTER IX.—High and Low
CHAPTER X.—Bride Roses
CHAPTER XI.—Misery
CHAPTER XII.—Thomas Explains
CHAPTER XIII.—Despair
CHAPTER XIV.—Memoranda
BOOK II.—REMEMBER EVELYN.
CHAPTER I.—The Secret of the Cadwaladers
CHAPTER II.—The Oath
CHAPTER III.—Eva
CHAPTER IV.—Felix
CHAPTER V.—Why the Iron Slide Remained Stationary
CHAPTER VI.—Answered
CHAPTER VII.—Last Words
BOOK I
A STRANGE CRIME
CHAPTER I.
RED LIGHT.
Mr. Gryce was melancholy. He had attained that period in life when thespirits flag and enthusiasm needs a constant spur, and of late there hadbeen a lack of special excitement, and he felt dull and superannuated.He was even contemplating resigning his position on the force andretiring to the little farm he had bought for himself in Westchester;and this in itself did not tend to cheerfulness, for he was one to whomaction was a necessity and the exercise of his mental faculties moreinspiring than any possible advantage which might accrue to him fromtheir use.
But he was not destined to carry out this impulse yet. For just at theheight of his secret dissatisfaction there came a telephone message to