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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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"Who goes there!" Frontispiece

"'If you'll say you'll do it, ... I'll not have those men shot'" 20

"There came a light, soft touch on his ring-finger" 52

"The chauffeur hit him ... two heavy, merciless blows, hurling him senseless across the stairs" 68

"'Kervyn! Kervyn—Think what you are doing!—'" 120

"Standing so beside the pool, breathing the incense of the roses, she thought of the dream" 276

"The Pulpit resounded with the rifle-fire of its little garrison" 296

"The impact hurled von Reiter against the table" 318

"And last of all came Karen with Guild on foot beside her" 336

WHO GOES THERE!

CHAPTER I

IN THE MIST

They had selected for their business the outer face of an old garden wall. There were red tiles on the coping; dusty roadside vines half covered the base. Where plaster had peeled off a few