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The Yellow Streak

by Valentine Williams

Contents

CHAPTER I. THE MASTER OF HARKINGS
CHAPTER II. AT TWILIGHT
CHAPTER III. A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER IV. BETWEEN THE DESK AND THE WINDOW
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH BUDE LOOKS AT ROBIN GREVE
CHAPTER VI. THE LETTER
CHAPTER VII. VOICES IN THE LIBRARY
CHAPTER VIII. ROBIN GOES TO MARY
CHAPTER IX. MR. MANDERTON
CHAPTER X. A SMOKING CHIMNEY
CHAPTER XI. “... SPEED THE PARTING GUEST!”
CHAPTER XII. MR. MANDERTON IS NONPLUSSED
CHAPTER XIII. JEEKES
CHAPTER XIV. A SHEET OF BLUE PAPER
CHAPTER XV. SHADOWS
CHAPTER XVI. THE INTRUDER
CHAPTER XVII. A FRESH CLUE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SILENT SHOT
CHAPTER XIX. MR. MANDERTON LAYS HIS CARDS ON THE TABLE
CHAPTER XX. THE CODE KING
CHAPTER XXI. A WORD WITH MR. JEEKES
CHAPTER XXII. THE MAN WITH THE YELLOW FACE
CHAPTER XXIII. TWO’S COMPANY ...
CHAPTER XXIV. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MR. SCHULZ
CHAPTER XXV. THE READING OF THE RIDDLE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY
CHAPTER XXVII. AN INTERRUPTION FROM BEYOND
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DEATH OF HARTLEY PARRISH

THE YELLOW STREAK

CHAPTER I.
THE MASTER OF HARKINGS

Of all the luxuries of which Hartley Parrish’s sudden rise to wealth gavehim possession, Bude, his butler, was the acquisition in which he took thegreatest delight and pride. Bude was a large and comfortable-looking person,triple-chinned like an archdeacon, bald-headed except for a respectable andsaving edging of dark down, clean-shaven, benign of countenance, with a boldnose which to the psychologist bespoke both ambition and inborn cleverness. Hehad a thin, tight mouth which in itself alone was a symbol of discreetreticence, the hall-mark of the trusted family retainer.

Bude had spent his l

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