BOOK III

HAD BATSY LIVED!

XXX--What Followed the Striking of the Clock
XXXI--A Witness Lost
XXXII--Why Agatha Webb will Never be Forgotten in Sutherlandtown
XXXIII--Father and Son
XXXIV--"Not When They Are Young Girls"
XXXV--Sweetwater Pays His Debt at Last to Mr. Sutherland






BOOK I

THE PURPLE ORCHID


I

A CRY ON THE HILL


The dance was over. From the great house on the hill the guests
had all departed and only the musicians remained. As they filed
out through the ample doorway, on their way home, the first faint