XII CHAYNE RETURNS
XIV AN OLD PASSION BETRAYS A NEW SECRET
XV KENYON'S JOHN LATTERY
XVI AS BETWEEN GENTLEMEN
XVII SYLVIA TELLS MORE THAN SHE KNOWS
XVIII BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION
XIX THE SHADOW IN THE ROOM
XX ON THE DOWN
XXI CHAYNE COMES TO CONCLUSIONS
XXII REVAILLOUD REVISITED
XXIII MICHEL REVAILLOUD'S _FÜHRBUCH_
XXIV THE BRENVA RIDGE
XXV A NIGHT ON AN ICE-SLOPE
XXVI RUNNING WATER




CHAPTER I

SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME


The Geneva express jerked itself out of the Gare de Lyons. For a few
minutes the lights of outer Paris twinkled past its windows and then with
a spring it reached the open night. The jolts and lurches merged into one
regular purposeful throb, the shrieks of the wheels, the clatter of the
coaches, into one continuous hum. And already in the upper berth of her
compartment Mrs. Thesiger was asleep. The noise of a train had no unrest
for her. Indeed, a sleeping compartment in a Continental express was the