CONTENTS
THE MYSTERY OF MURRAY DAVENPORT
CHAPTER I — MR. LARCHER GOES OUT IN THE RAIN
CHAPTER II — ONE OUT OF SUITS WITH FORTUNE
CHAPTER III — A READY-MONEY MAN
CHAPTER IV — AN UNPROFITABLE CHILD
CHAPTER V — A LODGING BY THE RIVER
CHAPTER VI — THE NAME OF ONE TURL COMES UP
CHAPTER VIII — MR. LARCHER INQUIRES
CHAPTER IX — MR. BUD'S DARK HALLWAY
CHAPTER X — A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XI — FLORENCE DECLARES HER ALLEGIANCE
CHAPTER XII — LARCHER PUTS THIS AND THAT TOGETHER
CHAPTER XIII — MR. TURL WITH HIS BACK TO THE WALL
CHAPTER XIV — A STRANGE DESIGN
CHAPTER XV — TURL'S NARRATIVE CONTINUED
CHAPTER XVI — AFTER THE DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER XVII — BAGLEY SHINES OUT
The night set in with heavy and unceasing rain, and, though the month was August, winter itself could not have made the streets less inviting than they looked to Thomas Larcher. Having dined at the caterer's in the basement, and got the damp of the afternoon removed from his clothes and dried out of his skin, he stood at his window and gazed down at the reflections of the lights on the watery asphalt. The few people he saw were hastening laboriously under umbrellas which guided torrents down their backs and left their legs and feet open to the pour. Clean and dry in his dressing-gown and slippers, Mr. Larcher turned toward his easy chair and oaken bookcase, and thanked his stars that no engagement called him forth.