Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [ Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. ] CHECKMATE BY THE SAME AUTHOR GUY DEVERELL ALL IN THE DARK THE WYVERN MYSTERY THE COCK AND ANCHOR WYLDER'S HAND THE WATCHER CHECKMATE ROSE AND THE KEY TENANTS OF MALLORY WILLING TO DIE GOLDEN FRIARS THE EVIL GUEST Checkmate BY J. S. LE FANU Downey & Co. 12 York St. Covent Garden. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. MORTLAKE HALL, 1 II. MARTHA TANSEY, 7 III. MR. LONGCLUSE OPENS HIS HEART, 13 IV. MONSIEUR LEBAS, 17 V. A CATASTROPHE, 22 VI. TO BED, 26 VII. FAST FRIENDS, 31 VIII. CONCERNING A BOOT, 38 IX. THE MAN WITHOUT A NAME, 43 X. THE ROYAL OAK, 48 XI. THE TELEGRAM ARRIVES, 55 XII. SIR REGINALD ARDEN, 62 XIII. ON THE ROAD, 68 XIV. MR. LONGCLUSE'S BOOT FINDS A TEMPORARY ASYLUM, 72 XV. FATHER AND SON, 79 XVI. A MIDNIGHT MEETING, 84 XVII. MR. LONGCLUSE AT MORTLAKE HALL, 91 XVIII. THE PARTY IN THE DINING-ROOM, 96 XIX. IN MRS. TANSEY'S ROOM, 103 XX. MRS. TANSEY'S STORY, 108 XXI. A WALK BY MOONLIGHT, 115 XXII. MR. LONGCLUSE MAKES AN ODD CONFIDENCE, 120 XXIII. THE MEETING, 125 XXIV. MR. LONGCLUSE FOLLOWS A SHADOW, 129 XXV. A TETE-A-TETE, 133 XXVI. THE GARDEN AT MORTLAKE, 137 XXVII. WINGED WORDS, 141 XXVIII. STORIES ABOUT MR. LONGCLUSE, 147 XXIX. THE GARDEN PARTY, 153 XXX. HE SEES HER, 158