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Title: Whispering Wires

Author: Henry Leverage

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Language: English

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WHISPERING WIRES

Adapted from the _Saturday Evening Post_ Story of the Same Title

by

HENRY LEVERAGE

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1918,
by
Moffat, Yard & Company

First printing . . . . September, 1918
Second printing . . . . September, 1918
Third printing . . . . October, 1918

DEDICATED

TO

ONE WHO HELPED

CONTENTS

I "The Whispering Voice" 1
II "The Magpie" 15
III "The Man in Olive-Drab" 31
IV "The Murder" 46
V "The First Clews" 59
VI "Harry Nichols" 74
VII "The Spot of Black" 89
VIII "Tangled Wires" 107
IX "Men and Motives" 124
X "A Woman Calls" 144
XI "The Closing Net" 181
XII "Suspicion Fastens" 202
XIII "A Silent Prisoner" 222
XIV "The Prisoner Speaks" 239
XV "The Voice on the Wire" 260
XVI "The End" 277

WHISPERING WIRES

CHAPTER ONE

"THE WHISPERING VOICE"

In the greatest city of the modern world, in the Metropolis of Guilt
and Guile--where Alias and Alibi ride in gum-shod limousines while Mary
Smith of the pure heart walks the pavements with broken shoes--there is
a mansion so rich and so rare that it stands alone.

Turret and tower, green-bronze roof, Cararra-marbled portico and
iron-grilled gates brought from Hyderabad, have made this mansion the
show place and the Peri's paradise for those who parade the Avenue
called Fifth, in an unending sash of fashion.

Out from this palace at the close of a winter's day, there flashed the
tiny pulsations of voice-induced curr