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  SAMUEL BOYD

  OF CATCHPOLE SQUARE

  _A MYSTERY_

  By B. L. FARJEON Author of "The Iron-Master"

  _NEW YORK_ NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY _LONDON_ HUTCHINSON AND CO. 1899

  * * * * * * * * *_Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, London and Aylesbury, England_.

  CONTENTS.

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  CHAP.

  I. ABEL DEATH AT WORK.

  II. SAMUEL BOYD SETS A TRAP FOR HIS DRUDGE.

  III. A LADY OF FASHION PAYS SAMUEL BOYD A VISIT.

  IV. SILENCE REIGNS.

  V. CONSTABLE APPLEBEE AND CONSTABLE POND FOREGATHER.

  VI. IT WAS GONE! THROUGH DEADMAN'S COURT.

  VII. IN BISHOP STREET POLICE STATION.

  VIII. AUNT ROB THINKS FLORENCE OUGHT TO MARRY A MARQUIS OR A PRINCE.

  IX. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ABEL DEATH.

  X. UNCLE ROB AND DICK ARGUE IT OUT.

  XI. DICK REMINGTON REVIEWS THE PAST.

  XII. DICK CONFESSES HOW HE BEHAVED HIMSELF IN THE SERVICE OF SAMUEL BOYD.

  XIII. A LIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF DR. PYE.

  XIV. THE LADY'S HANDKERCHIEF WHICH CONSTABLE POND PICKED UP IN CATCHPOLE SQUARE.

  XV. DICK COMES TO AN ARRANGEMENT WITH CONSTABLE POND.

  XVI. LETTERS FROM FLORENCE.

  XVII. THE LITTLE WASHERWOMAN.

  XVIII. DR. PYE'S FRIEND, OF THE NAME OF VINSEN.

  XIX. DICK PREPARES FOR A SIEGE AND COMMENCES SERIOUS OPERATIONS.

  XX. DICK MAKES A DISCOVERY.

  XXI. THE CHAMBER OF DEATH.

  XXII. DICK RELIEVES GRACIE'S FEELING BY ONE EXPRESSIVE WORD.

  XXIII. FLORENCE AND REGINALD.

  XXIV. DR. VINSEN TAKES AN INTEREST IN DICK.

  XXV. LADY WHARTON AT THE FOUNTAIN.

  XXVI. "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE" GETS AHEAD OF ITS RIVALS.

  XXVII. "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE" ENLIGHTENS THE PUBLIC.

  XXVIII. THE BURSTING OF THE CLOUD.

  XXIX. A MODERN KNIGHT OF CHIVALRY.

  XXX. REGINALD'S MAN OF BUSINESS.

  XXXI. SCENES IN CATCHPOLE SQUARE.

  XXXII. "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE'S" REPORT OF THE INQUEST.

  XXXIII. SCENES IN COURT.

  XXXIV. GATHERING CLOUDS.

  XXXV. LADY WHARTON STARTLES THE COURT.

  XXXVI. THE CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST.

  XXXVII. DR. PYE MAKES A STATEMENT.

  XXXVIII. DICK IS OF THE OPINION THAT THE MYSTERY SEEMS IMPENETRABLE, BUT IS STILL DETERMINED TO PIERCE IT.

  XXXIX. GRACE MAKES A DISCOVERY.

  XL. THE SPECTRE IN THE FLASH-LIGHT.

  XLI. HOW A MURDERER MIGHT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED.

  XLII. A FAMILY COUNCIL.

  XLIII. AUNT ROB PLAYS THE PART OF FAIRY GODMOTHER.

  XLIV. IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE.

  XLV. CROSS PURPOSES.

  XLVI. "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE'S" REPORT OF THE CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST.

  XLVII. "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE" CONTINUES ITS REPORT OF THE INQUEST.

  XLVIII. THE CORONER'S SUMMING-UP.

  XLIX. LITTLE GRACIE DEATH ON THE TRAIL.

  L. EZRA LYNN, THE MONEY-LENDER.

  LI. A DEAD LOCK.

  LII. ARRESTED FOR MURDER.

  LIII. GRACIE RELATES THE STORY OF HER ADVENTURES.

  LIV. EXTRACTS FROM "THE BUSY BEE" OF FRIDAY, THE 15TH OF MARCH, 1896.

  LV. CONSTABLE APPLEBEE ON THE WATCH.

  LVI. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF DAVID LAMBERT, DETECTIVE OFFICER.

  LVII. DETECTIVE LAMBERT CONTINUES HIS DIARY.

  LVIII. THE DISCOVERY OF THE CRYPTOGRAM.

  LIX. CONSTABLE APPLEBEE DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF.

  LX. FROM THE DIARY OF DETECTIVE LAMBERT.

  LXI. FROM "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE" OF THURSDAY, MARCH 21ST.

  LXII. AT THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

  LXIII. CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL.

  LXIV. A STARTLING DENOUEMENT.

  LXV. FROM "THE LITTLE BUSY BEE."

  LXVI. JOY.

  SAMUEL BOYD OF CATCHPOLE SQUARE.

  * * * * _A MYSTERY_. * * * *