The Cold Gray Dawn A Falsehood Under the Palms Woe in Number Seven The Exquisite Mr. Hayden The Sign of the Open Window Table Talk A Man from the Dark The Professor Sums Up A Red Card Exeunt Omnes, as Shakespeare Has It The Admiral's Game The Mayor is Welcomed Home The Usual Thing SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE CHAPTER I "WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY" A young woman was crying bitterly in the waiting-room of the railway station at Upper Asquewan Falls, New York. A beautiful young woman? That is exactly what Billy Magee wanted to know as, closing the waiting-room door behind him, he stood staring just inside. Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour? The girl's neatly tailored corduroy suit and her flippant but charming millinery augured well. Should he step gallantly forward and inquire in sympathetic
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