The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Cab of the Sleeping Horse, by John Reed
Scott, Illustrated by William van Dresser

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Cab of the Sleeping Horse

Author: John Reed Scott

Release Date: February 18, 2005 [eBook #15094]
[Date last updated: March 5, 2005]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CAB OF THE SLEEPING HORSE***

E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci, Joshua
Hutchinson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

THE CAB OF THE SLEEPING HORSE

by

JOHN REED SCOTT

Author of _The Woman in Question_, _The Man In Evening Clothes_, etc.

Frontispiece by William van Dresser

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons

1916

[Illustration: SHE THREW UP HER HAND, AND A NASTY LITTLE AUTOMATIC
WAS COVERING THE SECRETARY'S HEART. Drawn by William Van Dresser.
(Chapter 24)]

CONTENTS

I.--THE PHOTOGRAPH

II.--THE VOICE ON THE WIRE

III.--VISITORS

IV.--CRENSHAW

V.--ANOTHER WOMAN

VI.--THE GREY-STONE HOUSE

VII.--SURPRISES

VIII.--THE STORY

IX.--DECOYED

X.--SKIRMISHING

XI.--HALF A LIE

XII.--CARPENTER

XIII.--THE MARQUIS

XIV.--THE SLIP OF PAPER

XV.--IDENTIFIED

XVI.--ANOTHER LETTER

XVII.--IN THE TAXI

XVIII.--DOUBT

XIX.--MARSTON

XX.--PLAYING THE GAME

XXI.--THE KEY-WORD

XXII.--THE RATAPLAN

XXIII.--CAUGHT

XXIV.--THE CANDLE FLAME

I

THE PHOTOGRAPH

"A beautiful woman is never especially clever," Rochester remarked.

Harleston blew a smoke ring at the big drop-light on the table and
watched it swirl under the cardinal shade.

"The cleverest woman I know is also the most beautiful," he replied.
"Yes, I can name her offhand. She has all the finesse of her sex,
together with the reasoning mind; she is surpassingly good to look at,
and knows how to use her looks to obtain her end; as the occasion
demands, she can be as cold as steel or warm as a summer's night; she--"

"How are her morals?" Roche