The Voice in the Telephone

The Haunted House

Face to Face

The Agent of the Fireless Stove

The Smoldering Embers

The Charm of Jade

A Blow

Whose Feet Were Shod with Silence

From Mrs. Melville’s Point of View

The Light That Never was

The Real Edwin Keatcham

In Which the Puzzle Falls Into Place

Casa Fuerte

Extract from a Letter

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THE LION’S SHARE

CHAPTER I THE MAN WITH THE MOLES

The first time that Colonel Rupert Winter saw Cary Mercer was under circumstances calculated to fix the incident firmly in his memory. In the year 1903, home from the Philippines on furlough, and preparing to return to a task big enough to attract him in spite of its exile and hardships, he had visited the son of a friend at Harvard. They were walking through the corridors of one of the private dormitories where the boy roomed. Rather grimly the soldier’s eyes were noting marble wainscoting and tiled floors, and contrasting this academic 

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