COPYRIGHT, 1923 AND 1924, BY VALENTINE WILLIAMS
All RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

IN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF
“G”

CONTENTS

  Introduction ix

I. The Purple Cabriolet 1

II. Enter Miss Vere Slade 13

III. The Man with the Clubfoot 34

IV. The Strange Experience of Miss Patricia Maxwell 46

V. The Ikon of Smolensk 61

VI. The Secret of the Ikon 75

VII. The Unseen Menace 91

VIII. The Top Flat 101

IX. The Footstep in the Dark 124

X. In which Desmond Okewood finds Clubfoot in Strange Company 140

XI. The Constantinople Courier 154

XII. Xenia 166

XIII. In which Check proves to be Checkmate 179

XIV. The Girl at the Hexagon 188

XV. The Decoy 201

XVI. The House in Pimlico 214

XVII. The Meeting 236

XVIII. The Chamois Leather Packet 253

XIX. A Flight and What came of It 268

XX. In which Miss Mary Brewster speaks her Mind 279

INTRODUCTION

At the risk of straining an old and valuedfriendship, I have persuaded Major DesmondOkewood and his brother to allow meto set down in narrative form some accountof a remarkable series of events that, forreasons sufficiently obvious, have never beenfully described.

It is now some eighteen months since Dr.Adolf Grundt, the notorious German SecretSer

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