Produced by Mark C. Orton, Dave Macfarlane, Linda McKeown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net AT THE TIME APPOINTED TWELFTH EDITION * * * * * _By A. Maynard Barbour_ THAT MAINWARING AFFAIR ILLUSTRATED BY E. PLAISTED ABBOTT 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 "Possibly in a detective story the main object is to thrill. If so, 'That Mainwaring Affair' is all right. The thrill is there, full measure, pressed down and running over."--_Life_, New York "The book that reminds one of Anna Katherine Green in her palmiest days.... Keeps the reader on the alert, defies the efforts of those who read backward, deserves the applause of all who like mystery."--_Town Topics_, New York "The tale is well told, and the intricacies of the plot so adroitly managed that it is impossible to foresee the correct solution of the mysterious case until the final act of the tragedy.... Although vividly told, the literary style is excellent and the story by no means sensational, a fact that raises it above the level of the old-time detective story,"--_Brooklyn Daily Eagle_ [Illustration: AS DARRELL DISMOUNTED, SHE CAME SWIFTLY TOWARDS HIM, EXTENDING HER HAND. Page 110] AT THE TIME APPOINTED BY A. Maynard Barbour AUTHOR OF "THAT MAINWARING AFFAIR," ETC. WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY J. N. MARCHAND "Yes, greater they who on life's battle-field, With unseen foes and fierce temptations fight" JOHN D. HIGINBOTHAM GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York Copyright, 1903 By J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Published April, 1903 _Electrotyped and Printed by_ _J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A._ TO JOHN D. HIGINBOTHAM "AS UNKNOWN, AND YET WELL KNOWN" CONTENTS PAGE _Chapter_ I--John Darrell 9 " II--A Night's Work 25 " III--"The Pines" 32 " IV--Life? or Death? 43 " V--John Britton 48 " VI--Echoes from the Past 62 " VII--At the Mines 68 " VIII--"Until the Day Break" 81 " IX--Two Portraits 86 " X--The Communion of Two Souls 95 " XI--Impending Trouble 104 " XII--New Life in the Old Home 109 " XIII--Mr. Underwood "Strikes" First 123 " XIV--Drifting 134 " XV--The Awakening 146 " XVI--The Aftermath 166 " XVII--"She knows her Father's Will is Law" 180 " XVIII--On the "Divide" 194