Works of
ARTHUR GRIFFITHS

L.C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass.

The Passenger
from Calais

By Arthur Griffiths

Author of "The Rome Express," etc.

Boston L.C. Page and Company
Publishers

First Impression, January, 1906
Second Impression, February, 1906
Third Impression, February, 1906
Fourth Impression, March, 1908

Colonial Press
C.H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

• CHAPTER I.
  
  
• CHAPTER II.
  
  
• CHAPTER III.
  
  
• CHAPTER IV.
  
  
• CHAPTER V.
  
  
• CHAPTER VI.
  
  
• CHAPTER VII.
  
  
• CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
• CHAPTER IX.
  
  
• CHAPTER X.
  
  
• CHAPTER XI.
  
  
• CHAPTER XII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
• CHAPTER XV.
  
  
• CHAPTER XVI.
  
  
• CHAPTER XVII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XVIII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XIX.
  
  
• CHAPTER XX.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXI.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXIII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXIV.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXV.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXVI.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXVII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXVIII.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXIX.
  
  
• CHAPTER XXX.
  

FOREWORD

I desire to state that the initial
fact upon which I have founded
this story is within my own experience.
I travelled from Calais to
Basle by the Engadine Express in
the latter end of July, 1902, when
my wife and myself were the only
passengers. The rest is pure fiction.

A.G.

CHAPTER I.

[Colonel Annesley's Story]

The crossing from Dover to Calais had been rough; a drizzling rain fell all the time, and most of the passengers had remained below. Strange to say, they were few enough, as I saw on landing. It was a Sunday in late July, and there ought to have been a strong stream setting towards Central Europe. I hardly expected to find much room in the train; not that it mattered, for my place was booked through in the Lucerne sleeping-car of the Engadine express.

Room! When I