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Title: The Filigree Ball

Author: Anna Katherine Green

Posting Date: March 1, 2009 [EBook #2371]
Release Date: October, 2000

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THE FILIGREE BALL

by

Anna Katherine Green

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER

I "THE MOORE HOUSE?"
II I ENTER
III I REMAIN
IV SIGNED, VERONICA
V MASTER AND DOG
VI GOSSIP
VII SLY WORK
VIII SLYER WORK
IX JINNY
X FRANCIS JEFFREY

BOOK II

XI DETAILS
XII THRUST AND PARRY
XIII CHIEFLY THRUST
XIV "LET US HAVE TALLMAN!"
XV WHITE BOW AND PINK
XVI AN EGOTIST OF THE FIRST WATER
XVII A FRESH START
XVIII IN THE GRASS

BOOK III

XIX IN TAMPA
XX "THE COLONEL'S OWN"
XXI THE HEART OF THE PUZZLE
XXII A THREAD IN HAND
XXIII WORDS IN THE NIGHT
XXIV TANTALIZING TACTICS
XXV "WHO WILL TELL THE MAN!"
XXVI RUDGE
XXVII "YOU HAVE COME!"

BOOK I

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM

THE FILIGREE BALL

I

"THE MOORE HOUSE? ARE YOU SPEAKING OF THE MOORE HOUSE?"

For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at
headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for my
standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet been
expressed in words. Though I had small reason for expecting great
things of myself, I had always cherished the hope that if a big
case came my way I should be found able to do something with it
something more, that is, than I had seen accomplished by the
police of the District of Columbia since I had had the honor of
being one of their number. Therefore, when I found myself plunged,
almost without my own volition, into the Jeffrey Moore affair, I
believed that the opportunity had come whereby I might distinguish
myself.

It had complications, this Jeffrey-Moore affair; greater ones than
the public ever knew, keen as the interest in it ran both in and