THE MILL OF SILENCE

A PRIZE STORY

In The Chicago Record’s series of “Stories of Mystery.”

THE MILL OF SILENCE

BY
B. E. J. CAPES,Author of “The Uttermost Farthing,” “TheHaunted Tower,” etc.

(This story—out of 816 competing—was awarded the second prize in TheChicago Record’s “$30,000 to Authors” competition.)

Copyright, 1896, by B. E. J. Capes.

CONTENTS.

I. THE INMATES OF THE MILL.

II. A NIXIE.

III. THE MILL AND THE CHANGELING.

IV. ZYP BEWITCHES.

V. A TERRIBLE INTERVIEW.

VI. THE NIGHT BEFORE.

VII. THE POOL OF DEATH.

VIII. THE WAKING.

IX. THE FACE ON THE PILLOW.

X. JASON SPEAKS.

XI. CONVICT, BUT NOT SENTENCED.

XII. THE DENUNCIATION.

XIII. MY FRIEND THE CRIPPLE.

XIV. I OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT.

XV. SWEET, POOR DOLLY.

XVI. A FATEFUL ACCIDENT.

XVII. A TOUCHING REVELATION.

XVIII. A VOICE FROM THE CROWD.

XIX. A MENACE.

XX. DUKE SPEAKS.

XXI. THE CALM BEFORE.

XXII. THE SHADOW OF THE STORM.

XXIII. A LETTER AND AN ANSWER.

XXIV. LOST.

XXV. A LAST MESSAGE.

XXVI. FROM THE DEPTHS.

XXVII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.

XXVIII. THE TABLES TURNED.

XXIX. A SUDDEN DETERMINATION.

XXX. I GO HOME.

XXXI. ONE MYSTERY EXPLAINED.

XXXII. OLD PEGGY.

XXXIII. FACE TO FACE.

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