THE GREAT SKENE
MYSTERY

BY
BERNARD CAPES

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

[COPYRIGHT.]

First Published in 1907

[DEDICATION.]

TO
A. J. RICE-OXLEY
IN TOKEN OF SOME DEVOTED KINDNESS
THIS STORY IS DEDICATED
BY HIS FRIEND AND CONNEXION
The Author
“Good is a good doctor”—Emerson

CONTENTS.

PROLOGUE. MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKEN

I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

II. I COME OF AGE AND TO A DETERMINATION

III. THE LODGE IN THE CADDLE

IV. A YOUNG LADY’S CHASTENING—PHASE ONE

V. A YOUNG LADY’S CHASTENING—PHASE TWO

VI. MY FIRST ENLIGHTENMENT

VII. MORGIANA

VIII. THE WRITING ON THE WALL

IX. I VISIT CLAPHAM

X. EDITORIAL

XI. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW

XII. AN ODD RECOGNITION

XIII. JOHNNY DANDO

XIV. TWO INTERVIEWS AND A DISCOVERY

XV. THE LETTER IN THE BOOK

XVI. A STRANGE ENCOUNTER

XVII. NURSE ELLEN’S “YOUNG MAN”

XVIII. TELEGRAMS

XIX. LADY SKENE KNEELS TO ME

XX. ANTONIO GEOLETTI

XXI. SNOW AND FIRE

XXII. A VISIT FROM MR DALSTON

XXIII. GEOLETTI TELLS HIS STORY

XXIV. I ACCEPT THE BURDEN OF PROOF

XXV. JOHNNY AT HOME

XXVI. I REVISIT MOTHER CAREY

XXVII. CORRESPONDENCE

XXVIII. ON THE SCENT

XXIX. THE BODY IN THE CAVE

XXX. HARD PRESSED

XXXI. A NOTABLE INTERLUDE

XXXII. RUN TO EARTH

XXXIII. A REST BY THE WAY

XXXIV. THE GREAT SKENE CASE

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