White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946 / 2008-06-22 00:00:00

EBOOK THE SIGN AT SIX ***


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[Illustration: Helen]

THE SIGN AT SIX
By Stewart Edward White

With four illustrations by M. Leone Bracker

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I THE OWNER OF NEW YORK
II THE SHADOW OF MYSTERY
III THE MOVING FINGER WRITES
IV DARKNESS AND PANIC
V A SCIENTIST IN PINK SILK
VI THE WRATH TO COME
VII A WORLD OF GHOSTS
VIII PERCY DARROW'S THEORY
IX THE GREAT SILENCE
X THE LIFTING OF THE SPELL
XI THIRTY SECONDS MORE
XII THE UNKNOWN
XIII DARROW'S CHALLENGE
XIV THE FEAR OF DANGER
XV THE MASTER SPEAKS AGAIN
XVI THE PROFESSOR'S EXPERIMENT
XVII DRAWING THE NET
XVIII CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED
XIX PERCY KEEPS VIGIL
XX THE PLAGUE OF COLD
XXI IN THE FACE OF ETERNITY
XXII THE MAN NEXT DOOR
XXIII HOW IT ALL WAS
XXIV WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARD


CHAPTER I

THE OWNER OF NEW YORK
Percy Darrow, a young man of scientific training, indolent manners,
effeminate appearance, hidden energy, and absolute courage, lounged
through the doors of the Atlas Building. Since his rescue from the
volcanic island that had witnessed the piratical murder of his old
employer, Doctor Schermerhorn, the spectacular dissolution of the
murderers, and his own imprisonment in a cave beneath the very roar of an
eruption, he had been nursing his shattered nerves back to their normal
strength.
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