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Title: The Master Mystery
Author: Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
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THE MASTER MYSTERY
Novelized by
ARTHUR B. REEVE and JOHN W. GREY
From Scenarios by Arthur B. Reeve in Collaboration with John W. Grey
and C.A. Logue
Profusely Illustrated with Photographic Reproductions Taken from the
Houdini Super-Serial of the Same Name. A B. A. Rolfe Production.
New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Published May, 1919
THE MASTER MYSTERY
CHAPTER I
Peter Brent sat nervously smoking in the library of his great house,
Brent Rock.
He was a man of about forty-five or -six--a typical, shrewd business man.
Something, however, was evidently on his mind, for, though he tried to
conceal it, he lacked the self-assurance that was habitually his before
the world.
A scowl clouded his face as the door of the library was flung open and
he heard voices in the hall. A tall, spare, long-haired man forced his
way in, crushing his soft black hat in his hands.
"I _will_ see Mr. Brent," insisted the new-comer, as he pushed past the
butler. "Mr. Brent!" he cried, advancing with a wild light in his eyes.
"I'm tired of excuses. I want justice regarding that water-motor of
mine." He paused, then added, shaking his finger threateningly, "Put it
on the market--or I will call in the Department of Justice!"
Brent scowled again. For years he had been amassing a fortune by a
process that was scarcely within the law.
For, when inventions threat
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