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Title: The Second Latchkey

Author: Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

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THE SECOND LATCHKEY

by

C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

Frontispiece by Rudolph Tandler

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1920

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A White Rose

II. Smiths and Smiths

III. Why She Came

IV. The Great Moment

V. The Second Latchkey

VI. The Beginning--or the End?

VII. The Countess de Santiago

VIII. The Blue Diamond Ring

IX. The Thing Knight Wanted

X. Beginning of the Series

XI. Annesley Remembers

XII. The Crystal

XIII. The Series Goes On

XIV. The Test

XV. Nelson Smith at Home

XVI. Why Ruthven Smith Went

XVII. Ruthven Smith's Eyeglasses

XVIII. The Star Sapphire

XIX. The Secret

XX. The Plan

XXI. The Devil's Rosary

XXII. Destiny and the Waldos

XXIII. The Thin Wall

XXIV. The Anniversary

XXV. The Allegory

XXVI. The Three Words

THE SECOND LATCHKEY

CHAPTER I

A WHITE ROSE

Even when Annesley Grayle turned out of the Strand toward the Savoy she
was uncertain whether she would have courage to walk into the hotel. With
each step the thing, the dreadful thing, that she had come to do, loomed
blacker. It was monstrous, impossible, like opening the door of t