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The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy

Author of "The Terms of Surrender," "The Wings of the Morning,"
etc., etc.

1916







CONTENTS

CHAPTER

       I. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW

      II. P. C ROBINSON "TAKES A LINE"

     III. THE GATHERING CLOUDS

      IV. A CABAL

       V. THE SEEDS OF MISCHIEF

      VI. SCOTLAND YARD TAKES A HAND

     VII. "ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS"

    VIII. AN INTERRUPTED SYMPOSIUM

      IX. HE WHOM THE CAP FITS--

       X. THE CASE AGAINST GRANT

      XI. P. C. ROBINSON TAKES ANOTHER LINE

     XII. WHEREIN WINTER GETS TO WORK

    XIII. CONCERNING THEODORE SIDDLE

     XIV. ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER

      XV. A MATTER OF HEREDITY

     XVI. FURNEAUX MAKES A SUCCESSFUL BID

    XVII. AN OFFICIAL HOUSEBREAKER

   XVIII. THE TRUTH AT LAST




CHAPTER I

THE FACE AT THE WINDOW


John Menzies Grant, having breakfasted, filled his pipe, lit it, and
strolled out bare-headed into the garden. The month was June, that
glorious rose-month which gladdened England before war-clouds darkened
the summer sky. As the hour was nine o'clock, it is highly probable that
many thousands of men were then strolling out into many thousands of
gardens in precisely similar conditions; but, given youth, good health,
leisure, and a fair amount of money, it is even more probable that few
among the smaller number thus roundly favored by fortune looked so
perplexed as Grant.

Moreover, his actions were eloquent as words. A spacious French window
had been cut bodily out of the wall of an old-fashioned room, and was now
thrown wide to admit the flower-scented breeze. Between this window and
the right-hand angle of the room was a