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  BY THE SAME AUTHOR


  _A BRIDE FROM THE BUSH_

  _THE ROGUE'S MARCH_

  _IRRALIE'S BUSHRANGER_

  _MY LORD DUKE_

  _YOUNG BLOOD_


                         SOME PERSONS UNKNOWN




                         SOME PERSONS UNKNOWN

                           BY E. W. HORNUNG

                   NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

                                 1898




                          COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY
                        CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


                            TROW DIRECTORY
                   PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
                               NEW YORK




                          In Memoriam Matris




                               CONTENTS


                                 PAGE

  KENYON'S INNINGS                  1

  A LITERARY COINCIDENCE           40

  "AUTHOR! AUTHOR!"                71

  THE WIDOW OF PIPER'S POINT       87

  AFTER THE FACT                  104

  THE VOICE OF GUNBAR             151

  THE MAGIC CIGAR                 168

  THE GOVERNESS AT GREENBUSH      186

  A FAREWELL PERFORMANCE          234

  A SPIN OF THE COIN              244

  THE STAR OF THE _GRASMERE_      256




KENYON'S INNINGS


I

Kenyon had been more unmanageable than usual. Unsettled and excitable
from the moment he awoke and remembered who was coming in the evening,
he had remained in an unsafe state all day. That evening found him with
unbroken bones was