CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. ONLY THE GUARDIAN
CHAPTER II. MAKING AN ENEMY
CHAPTER III. ST. WRYTHA'S STAIR
CHAPTER IV. THE ROOM AT THE MITRE
CHAPTER V. THE SCRAP OF PAPER
CHAPTER VI. BY MISADVENTURE
CHAPTER VII. THE DOUBLE TRAIL
CHAPTER VIII. THE BEST MAN
CHAPTER IX. THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIEND
CHAPTER X. DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER XI. THE BACK ROOM
CHAPTER XII. MURDER OF THE MASON'S LABOURER
CHAPTER XIII. BRYCE IS ASKED A QUESTION
CHAPTER XIV. FROM THE PAST
CHAPTER XV. THE DOUBLE OFFER
CHAPTER XVI. BEFOREHAND
CHAPTER XVII. TO BE SHADOWED
CHAPTER XVIII. SURPRISE
CHAPTER XIX. THE SUBTLETY OF THE DEVIL
CHAPTER XX. JETTISON TAKES A HAND
CHAPTER XXI. THE SAXONSTEADE ARMS
CHAPTER XXII. OTHER PEOPLE'S NOTIONS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE UNEXPECTED
CHAPTER XXIV. FINESSE
CHAPTER XXV. THE OLD WELL HOUSE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE OTHER MAN
CHAPTER XXVII. THE GUARDED SECRET
American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed by tall elms and giant beeches, rises the vast fabric of the thirteenth-century Cathedral, its high spire piercing the skies in which rooks are for ever circling and calling. The time-worn stone, at a little distance delicate as lacework, is transformed at different hours of the day into shifting shades of colour, varying from grey to purple: the massiveness of the great nave and transept