HOW ONE OATH WAS TAKEN XIV A CLUELESS CLUE XV THE IMPOSSIBLE XVI THE COLLIE TESTIFIES XVII UNTANGLING THE SNARL XVIII WHEN HE CAME HOME XIX A MAN AND A MAID AND ANOTHER MAN THE AMATEUR INN [9] THE AMATEUR INN Chapter I A NON-SKIPPABLE PROLOGUE Chapter I OSMUN VAIL doesn’t come into this story at all. Yet he was responsible for everything that happened in it. He was responsible for the whistling cry in the night, and for the Thing that huddled among the fragrant boxtrees, and for the love of a man and a maid—or rather the loves of several men and a maid—and for the amazing and amusing and jewel-tangled dilemma wherein Thaxton was shoved.
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