Transcriber's Notes: 1. Transcribed from page images published as a serial on page 2 in the Cheshire Observer starting 18 January 1902 (http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4281236/4281238) and ending with 26 April 1902 as provided on the internet by Welsh Newspapers Online. CONTENTS CHAPTER. I. THE CONVICT'S RETURN. II. THE STILL FORM IN THE HOUSE. III. YOUNG LOVE, TRUE LOVE. IV. A STRANGE EPISODE. V. A SHADOW OF THE PAST. VI. MR. CASS SPEAKS. VII. WEBSTER'S CHILDHOOD. VIII. HERCULES AND OMPHALE. IX. THE EMBASSY OF GEOFFREY HERON. X. THE GREAT SECRET. XI. RUTH'S DIPLOMACY. XII. THE TOY HORSE. XIII. JOB, THE SAPENGRO XIV. THE CLAIRVOYANT. XV. THE PUNISHMENT OF CURIOSITY. XVI. JENNIE BRAWN MAKES A DISCOVERY. XVII. HERON FOLLOWS THE TRAIL. XVIII. THE MONEY-LENDER. XIX. JOB BECOMES CIVILISED. XX. WHAT MR. CASS HAD TO SAY. XXI. RUTH IS COMFORTED. XXII. AT BAY. XXIII. STILL IN DOUBT XXIV. ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE. XXV. ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE. XXVI. THE PENANCE OF INEZ. XXVII. A DOUBTFUL WITNESS. XXVIII. THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS. XXIX. THE END OF THE TURNPIKE HOUSE. XXX. THE END OF THE TURNPIKE HOUSE. CONTENTS THE TURNPIKE HOUSE. By FERGUS HUME, Author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," "The Crimson Cryptogram," "The Golden Idol," "Aladdin in London," "The Dwarf's Chamber," etc. CHAPTER I. THE CONVICT'S RETURN. It stood where four roads met--a square building of two storeys, with white-washed walls and a high slate roof. The fence, and the once trim garden, had vanished with the turnpike gate; and a jungle of gooseberry bushes, interspersed with brambles, shut off the house from the roads. And only by courtesy could these be so-called, for time and neglect had almost obliterated them.
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