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Title: A Maker of History

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

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A MAKER OF HISTORY

by

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

Author of
"The Kingdom of the Blind," "The Hillman,"
"The Double Traitor," Etc.

With Frontispiece

[Illustration: "'Guard this for me,' she whispered." (page 148)
_Frontispiece_]

[Illustration]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with Little, Brown & Company
Copyright, 1905, 1906,
by Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

BOOK I

I. AN ACCIDENTAL SPY 1

II. AT THE CAFE MONTMARTRE 11

III. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE 18

IV. THE FALLING OF THE HANDKERCHIEF 26

V. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT 33

VI. THE VANISHING LADY 40

VII. THE DECOY-HOUSE OF EUROPE 48

VIII. "DUNCOMBE'S HOLD-UP" 55

IX. THE STORY OF A CALL 64

X. SPENCER'S SURPRISE 72

XI. A WORD OF WARNING 80

XII. THE SHADOWING OF DUNCOMBE 87

XIII. "HER VOICE" 93

XIV. LAUGHTER OF WOMEN 101

XV. MISS FIELDING FROM AMERICA 107

XVI. MISS FIELDING ASKS A QUESTION 115

XVII. GEORGE DUN