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Title: Running Water

Author: A. E. W. Mason

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Language: English

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RUNNING WATER

by

A. E. W. MASON

Author of _The Four Feathers_, etc.

1907

CONTENTS

I SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME
II INTRODUCES ONE OF STROOD'S SUCCESSORS
III THE FINDING OF JOHN LATTERY
IV MR. JARVICE
V MICHEL REVAILLOUD EXPOUNDS HIS PHILOSOPHY
VI THE PAVILLON DE LOGNAN
VII THE AIGUILLE D'ARGENTIERE
VIII SYLVIA PARTS FROM HER MOTHER
IX SYLVIA MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF HER FATHER
X A LITTLE ROUND GAME OF CARDS
XI SYLVIA'S FATHER MAKES A MISTAKE
XII THE HOUSE OF THE RUNNING WATER
XII CHAYNE RETURNS
XIV AN OLD PASSION BETRAYS A NEW SECRET
XV KENYON'S JOHN LATTERY
XVI AS BETWEEN GENTLEMEN
XVII SYLVIA TELLS MORE THAN SHE KNOWS
XVIII BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION
XIX THE SHADOW IN THE ROOM
XX ON THE DOWN
XXI CHAYNE COMES TO CONCLUSIONS
XXII REVAILLOUD REVISITED
XXIII MICHEL REVAILLOUD'S _FUEHRBUCH_
XXIV THE BRENVA RIDGE
XXV A NIGHT ON AN ICE-SLOPE
XXVI RUNNING WATER

CHAPTER I

SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME

The Geneva express jerked itself out of the Gare de Lyons. For a few
minutes the lights of outer Paris twinkled past its windows and then with
a spring it reached the open night. The jolts and lurches merged into one
regular purposeful throb, the shrieks of the wheels, the clatter of the
coaches, into one continuous hum. And already in the upper berth of her
compartment Mrs. Thesiger was asleep. The noise of a train had no unrest
for her. Indeed, a sleeping compartment in a Continental express was the
most permanent home which Mrs. Thesiger had possessed for a good many
more years than she would have cared to acknowledge. She spent her life
in hotels with her daughter for an unconsidered companion. From a winter
in Vienna or in Rome she passed to a