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Title: The Gray Mask

Author: Wadsworth Camp

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THE GRAY MASK

by

WADSWORTH CAMP

Author of
"The Abandoned Room"
"The House of Fear," Etc.

Frontispiece by Walter De Maris

Garden City, New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All Rights Reserved, Including That of
Translation into Foreign Languages,
Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, by P. F. Collier & Sons, Inc.,
in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

[Illustration: "_'Even if you had croaked him you wouldn't dare
acknowledge it here. Why, George, you're kneeling where he lay'_"]

CONTENTS

I. GARTH IS SHOWN A GRAY MASK

II. IT OPENS NORA'S EYES

III. IN THE STEEL ROOM

IV. GARTH BUYS A BOUTONNIERE

V. WHAT HAPPENED AT ELMFORD

VI. A CRYING THROUGH THE SILENCE

VII. NORA FEARS FOR GARTH

VIII. THROUGH THE DARK

IX. THE PHANTOM ARMY

X. THE COINS AND THE CHINAMAN

XI. NORA DISAPPEARS IN AN EMPTY HOUSE

XII. THE HIDDEN DOOR

XIII. ALSOP'S INCREDIBLE VISITOR

XIV. THE LEVANTINE WHO GUARDED A CURTAIN

XV. THE VEILED WOMAN

XVI. A NOTE FROM THE DEAD

XVII. THE KNIFE BY THE LIFELESS HAND

XVIII. THE STAINED ROBE

XIX. PAYMENT IS DEMANDED FOR THE GRAY MASK

XX. THE BLACK CAP

XXI. THE ANTICS OF A TRAIN

THE GRAY MASK

CHAPTER I

GARTH IS SHO