The Hand in the Dark

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THE HAND IN THE DARK
BY ARTHUR J. REES
AUTHOR OF "THE SHRIEKING PIT"
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
Copyright, 1920
PRESS OF
THE VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., U. S. A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
By REES & WATSON
THE HAND IN THE DARK
CHAPTER I
Seen in the sad glamour of an English twilight, the old
moat-house, emerging from the thin mists which veiled the
green flats in which it stood, conveyed the impression of
a habitation falling into senility, tired with centuries
of existence. Houses grow old like the race of men; the
process is not less inevitable, though slower; in both,
decay is hastened by events as well as by the passage of
Time.
The moat-house was not so old as English country-houses
go, but it had aged quickly because of its past. There was
a weird and bloody history attached to the place: an
historical record of murders and stabbings and quarrels

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