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Title: The Postmaster's Daughter

Author: Louis Tracy

Release Date: November 17, 2003 [eBook #10110]

Language: English

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The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy

Author of "The Terms of Surrender," "The Wings of the Morning,"
etc., etc.

1916

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW

II. P. C ROBINSON "TAKES A LINE"

III. THE GATHERING CLOUDS

IV. A CABAL

V. THE SEEDS OF MISCHIEF

VI. SCOTLAND YARD TAKES A HAND

VII. "ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS"

VIII. AN INTERRUPTED SYMPOSIUM

IX. HE WHOM THE CAP FITS--

X. THE CASE AGAINST GRANT

XI. P. C. ROBINSON TAKES ANOTHER LINE

XII. WHEREIN WINTER GETS TO WORK

XIII. CONCERNING THEODORE SIDDLE

XIV. ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER

XV. A MATTER OF HEREDITY

XVI. FURNEAUX MAKES A SUCCESSFUL BID

XVII. AN OFFICIAL HOUSEBREAKER

XVIII. THE TRUTH AT LAST

CHAPTER I

THE FACE AT THE WINDOW

John Menzies Grant, having breakfasted, filled his pipe, lit it, and
strolled out bare-headed into the garden. The month was June, that
glorious rose-month which gladdened England before war-clouds darkened
the summer sky. As the hour was nine o'clock, it is highly probable that
many thousands of men were then strolling out into many thousands of
gardens in precisely similar conditions; but, given youth, good health,
leisure, and a fair amount of money, it is even more probable that few
among the smaller number thus roundly favored by fortune looked so
perplexed as Grant.

Moreover, his actions were eloquent as words. A spacious French window
had been cut bodily out of the wall of an old-fashioned room, and was now
thrown wide to admit the flower-scented breeze. Between this window and
the right-hand angle of the room was a smaller window, square-paned, high
above the ground lev