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Title: The Blue Wall
A Story of Strangeness and Struggle

Author: Richard Washburn Child

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Language: English

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THE BLUE WALL

A Story of Strangeness and Struggle

by

RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD

[Illustration: A PICTURE THERE AMONG THE LAW BOOKS]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1912, by Richard Washburn Child
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

BOOK I--THE PROBLEM OF MACMECHEM

I. The House Next Door 3

II. A Moving Figure 22

BOOK II--THE AUTOMATIC SHEIK

I. A Woman at Twenty-two 39

II. A Pledge to the Judge 65

III. The Torn Scrap 80

IV. The Face 101

V. At Dawn 126

VI. The Moving Figure again 137

BOOK III--THE DOCTOR'S LIMOUSINE

I. A Shadow on the Curtain 157

II. Margaret 170

BOOK IV--A PUPIL OF THE GREAT WELSTOKE

I. Les Trois Folies 181

II. The House on the River 196

III. A Visitor at Night 219

IV. A Suppression of the Truth 240