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Title: The Brand of Silence
A Detective Story

Author: Harrington Strong

Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21891]

Language: English

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The Brand of Silence

A DETECTIVE STORY

By HARRINGTON STRONG

CHELSEA HOUSE 79 SEVENTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY

Copyright, 1919 by STREET & SMITH

(Printed in the United States of America)

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian.

CONTENTS

I. IN THE HARBOR

II. THE GIRL ON THE SHIP

III. SOME DISCOURTESIES

IV. A FOE AND A FRIEND

V. THE COUSIN

VI. MURK--AND MURDER

VII. EVIDENCE

VIII. LIES AND LIARS

IX. PUZZLED

X. ON THE TRAIL

XI. CONCERNING KATE GILBERT

XII. BATTERED KEYS

XIII. A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

XIV. MORE MYSTERY

XV. A MOMENT OF VIOLENCE

XVI. MURK RECEIVES A BLOW

XVII. MURK IS TEMPTED

XVIII. A WOMAN'S WAY

XIX. COADLEY QUITS

XX. UP THE RIVER

XXI. RECOGNITION

XXII. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR

XXIII. A STARTLING STORY

XXIV. HIGH-HANDED METHODS

XXV. AN ACCUSATION

XXVI. THE TRUTH COMES OUT

THE BRAND OF SILENCE

CHAPTER I

IN THE HARBOR

Now the fog was clearing and the mist was lifting, and the bright
sunshine was struggling to penetrate the billows of damp vapor and touch
with its glory the things of the world beneath. In the lower harbor
there still was a chorus of sirens and foghorns, as craft of almost
every description made way toward the metropolis or out toward the open
sea.

The _Manatee_, tramp steamer with rusty plates and rattling engines and
a lurch like that of a drunken man, wallowed her way in from the
turbulent ocean she had