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Produced by Al Haines.


                              _A Marriage
                           Under the Terror_


                                  _By_
                          _Patricia Wentworth_



                          G. P. Putnam's Sons
                          New York and London
                          Knickerbocker Press
                                  1910




                            COPYRIGHT, 1910
                                   BY
                          G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS


                         Published, April, 1910
                          Reprinted, May, 1910



                   The Knickerbocker Press, New York




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To _A Marriage Under the Terror_ has been awarded in England the first
prize in the Melrose Novel Competition, a competition that was not
restricted to first stories.  The distinguished literary reputation of
the three judges--Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, Miss Mary Cholmondeley, and
Mrs. Henry de la Pasture--was a guaranty alike to the contestants and to
the public that the story selected as the winner would without question
be fully entitled to that distinction.  In consequence, many authors of
experience entered the contest, with the result that the number of
manuscripts submitted was greater than that in the competition
previously conducted by Mr. Melrose.

Among such a number of good stories individual taste must always play an
important part in the decision.  It is, therefore, no small tribute to
the transcendent interest of the winning novel that, though the judges
worked independently, each selected _A Marriage Under the Terror_ as the
most distinctive novel in the group.




                                CONTENTS


CHAPTER

      I. A Purloined Cipher
     II. A Forced Entrance
    III. Shut out by a Prison Wall
     IV. The Terror Let Loose
      V. A Carnival of Blood
     VI. A Doubtful Safety
    VII. The Inner Conflict
   VIII. An Offer