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Title: The Circular Study

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Release Date: July 5, 2006 [EBook #18761]

Language: English

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THE CIRCULAR STUDY

BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

1900

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
1914

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.--A STRANGE CRIME.

I.--Red Light

II.--Mysteries

III.--The Mute Servitor

IV.--A New Experience for Mr. Gryce

V.--Five Small Spangles

VI.--Suggestions From an Old Friend

VII.--Amos's Son

VIII.--In the Round of the Staircase

IX.--High and Low

X.--Bride Roses

XI.--Misery

XII.--Thomas Explains

XIII.--Despair

XIV.--Memoranda

BOOK II.--REMEMBER EVELYN.

I.--The Secret of the Cadwaladers

II.--The Oath

III.--Eva

IV.--Felix

V.--Why the Iron Slide Remained Stationary

VI.--Answered

VII.--Last Words

BOOK I

A STRANGE CRIME

CHAPTER I.

RED LIGHT.

Mr. Gryce was melancholy. He had attained that period in life when the
spirits flag and enthusiasm needs a constant spur, and of late there had
been a lack of special excitement, and he felt dull and superannuated.
He was even contemplating resigning his position on the force and
retiring to the little farm he had bought for himself in Westchester;
and this in itself did not tend to cheerfulness, for he was one to whom
action was a necessity and the exercise of his mental faculties more
inspiring than any possible advantage which might accrue to him from
their use.

But he was not destined to carry out this impulse yet. For just at the
height of his secret dissatisfaction there came a telephone message to
Headquarte