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Title: The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

Author: Anna Katharine Green

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THE MYSTERY OF THE HASTY ARROW

by

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

Author of "The Chief Legatee," "That Affair Next Door," "A Strange
Disappearance," Etc.

With Frontispiece by H. R. Ballinger

[Illustration: "Do not by any show of curiosity endanger her recovery.
I would not have her body or mind sacrificed on any account."]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by Arrangement with Dodd, Mead & Company
Copyright, 1917,
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Made in U.S.A.

CONTENTS

BOOK I--A PROBLEM OF THE FIRST ORDER

CHAPTER

I "Let Some One Speak!"

II In Room B

III "I Have Something to Show You"

IV A Strategic Move

V Three Where Two Should Be

VI The Man in the Gallery

VII "You Think that of Me!"

BOOK II--MR. X

VIII On the Search

IX While the City Slept

X "And He Stood Here?"

XI Footsteps

XII "Spare Nobody! I Say, Spare Nobody!"

XIII "Write Me His Name"

XIV A Loop of Silk

XV News from France

BOOK III--STORM IN THE MOUNTAINS

XVI Friends

XVII The Cuckoo-Clock

XVIII Mrs. Davis' Strange Lodger

XIX Mr. Gryce and the Timid Child

XX Mr. Gryce and the Unwary Woman

XXI Perplexed

XXII He Remembers