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Title: The Brand of Silence
A Detective Story
Author: Harrington Strong
Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21891]
Language: English
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The Brand of Silence
A DETECTIVE STORY
By HARRINGTON STRONG
CHELSEA HOUSE 79 SEVENTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY
Copyright, 1919 by STREET & SMITH
(Printed in the United States of America)
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian.
CONTENTS
I. IN THE HARBOR
II. THE GIRL ON THE SHIP
III. SOME DISCOURTESIES
IV. A FOE AND A FRIEND
V. THE COUSIN
VI. MURK--AND MURDER
VII. EVIDENCE
VIII. LIES AND LIARS
IX. PUZZLED
X. ON THE TRAIL
XI. CONCERNING KATE GILBERT
XII. BATTERED KEYS
XIII. A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
XIV. MORE MYSTERY
XV. A MOMENT OF VIOLENCE
XVI. MURK RECEIVES A BLOW
XVII. MURK IS TEMPTED
XVIII. A WOMAN'S WAY
XIX. COADLEY QUITS
XX. UP THE RIVER
XXI. RECOGNITION
XXII. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR
XXIII. A STARTLING STORY
XXIV. HIGH-HANDED METHODS
XXV. AN ACCUSATION
XXVI. THE TRUTH COMES OUT
THE BRAND OF SILENCE
CHAPTER I
IN THE HARBOR
Now the fog was clearing and the mist was lifting, and the bright
sunshine was struggling to penetrate the billows of damp vapor and touch
with its glory the things of the world beneath. In the lower harbor
there still was a chorus of sirens and foghorns, as craft of almost
every description made way toward the metropolis or out toward the open
sea.
The _Manatee_, tramp steamer with rusty plates and rattling engines and
a lurch like that of a drunken man, wallowed her way in from the
turbulent ocean she had
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