ISITOR 173
XVI. WINIFRED DRIFTS 181
XVII. ALL ROADS LEAD TO EAST ORANGE 191
XVIII. THE CRASH 201
XIX. CLANCY EXPLAINS 214
XX. IN THE TOILS 225
XXI. MOTHER AND SON 235
XXII. THE HUNT 245
XXIII. "HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS
AWAY--" 257
XXIV. IN FULL CRY 269
XXV. FLANK ATTACKS 280
XXVI. THE BITER BIT 293
XXVII. THE SETTLEMENT 304

THE BARTLETT MYSTERY

CHAPTER I

A GATHERING AT A CLUB

That story of love and crime which figures in the records of the New
York Detective Bureau as "The Yacht Mystery" has little to do with
yachts and is no longer a mystery. It is concerned far more intimately
with the troubles and trials of pretty Winifred Bartlett than with
the vagaries of the restless sea; the alert, well-groomed figure of
Winifred's true lover, Rex Carshaw, fills its pages to the almost total
exclusion of the portly millionaire who owned the _Sans Souci_. Yet,
such is the singular dominance exercised by the trivial things of life
over the truly important ones, some hundreds of thousands of people in
the great city on the three rivers will recall many episodes of the nine
days' wonder known to them as "The Yacht Mystery" though they may never
have heard of either Winifred or Rex.

It began simply, as all major events do begin, and, of course, at the
outset, neither of these two young people seemed to have the remotest
connection with it.

On the evening of October 5, 1913--that is the date when the first entry
appears in the diary of Mr. James Steingall, chief of the Bureau--the
stream of traffic in Fifth Avenue was interrupted to an unusual degree
at a corner near Forty-second Street. The homeward-bound throng going
up-town and the equally dense crowd coming down-town to restaurants and
theater-land merely chafed at a delay which they did not understand, but
the traffic policeman knew exactly what was going on, and kept his head
and his temper.

A few doors down the north side of the cross street a famous club
was ablaze with lights. Especially did th