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قراءة كتاب The Carleton Case
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The
Carleton Case
By ELLERY H. CLARK
Author of “Loaded Dice,” Etc.
Illustrated by
GEORGE BREHM
| A. L. BURT COMPANY | ||
| PUBLISHERS | :: | NEW YORK |
Copyright 1910
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
“The girl who knelt upon the grass.”—Page 29To My Friends
MR. AND MRS. H. DENTON WHITE
CONTENTS
| I. | Doctor Helmar Visits the Birches | 1 |
| II. | Inquiring Friends | 13 |
| III. | The Prodigal Son | 34 |
| IV. | A Fool and His Money | 57 |
| V. | A Question of Honor | 78 |
| VI. | Death Comes | 109 |
| VII. | A Parting | 128 |
| VIII. | Temptation | 139 |
| IX. | Three Years Later | 149 |
| X. | The Birches Again | 173 |
| XI. | The Events of an Evening | 191 |
| XII. | The Yellow Streak | 221 |
| XIII. | Vaughan Doubts | 239 |
| XIV. | The Quest Of Truth | 267 |
| XV. | Murder Will Out | 280 |
| XVI. | The Family Name | 302 |
| XVII. | In the Balance | 316 |
| XVIII. | Reparation | 331 |
THE CARLETON CASE
CHAPTER I
DOCTOR HELMAR VISITS THE BIRCHES
“Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.”
Psalm xxxvii.
In Doctor Morrison’s breakfast-room the curtains were drawn back, and the windows stood wide open, letting in a flood of warm June sunshine, and filling the whole room with the fragrance of the soft June air. Even into the streets of the city, restricted and shut in, something of the freshness and beauty of the summer morning had managed to make their way, and to Franz Helmar, seated alone at the breakfast table, listening to the chatter of the sparrows and the cooing of the pigeons on the roofs outside, there came suddenly a sense of irritation at the monotony of dingy sidewalk and dusty street, of house after house of brick varied only by house after house of stone.
Irresistibly, there crept over him the whimsical fancy that he would like to see the whole vast city at one stroke fade and vanish