IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT [Illustration: A SMALL WHITE HAND DARTED OVER HIS SHOULDER _Page_ 174] IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT BY JOHN T. McINTYRE Author of “With Fighting Jack Barry,” etc. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_ FRANCES ROGERS [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1908 COPYRIGHT, 1908 BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Published April, 1908 _Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._ TO ALICE MUMFORD ROBERTS CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE GIRL IN THE HANSOM CAB 11 II. THE DARK HOUSE IN SELDEN’S SQUARE 20 III. IN THE FACE OF STRANGE DANGERS 31 IV. KENYON IS DRAWN DEEPER IN THE MAZE 41 V. GARRY WEBSTER, OF CHICAGO 52 VI. KENYON HAS ANOTHER ODD EXPERIENCE 68 VII. THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL PUZZLE 78 VIII. THE NIGHT GROWS THICK WITH WONDER 92 IX. KENYON GOES BLINDLY ON 102 X. HONG YO STRIKES A BLOW 111 XI. THE SECOND NIGHT ENDS 121 XII. AND THE THIRD NIGHT BEGINS 133 XIII. KENYON MEETS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE 143 XIV. THE UNINVITED GUEST 151 XV. KENYON IN A NEW RÔLE 167 XVI. KENYON CALLS ON THE MAN FROM SAGINAW 176 XVII. AT THE GIRLS’ CLUB IN MULBERRY STREET 193 XVIII. KENYON SHOWS HIS METAL 204 XIX. ON BOARD THE VIXEN 217 XX. BAFFLED 226 XXI. KENYON BEGINS TO SEE THE LIGHT 240 XXII. THE LIGHT GROWS STRONGER 251 XXIII. WHAT KENYON HEARD AND SAW 265 XXIV. CONCLUSION 273 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE A SMALL WHITE HAND DARTED OVER HIS SHOULDER _Frontispiece_ ALL THE TIME HER GAZE WAS FIXED UPON THE TWO 73 HE STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN THE DOORWAY 117 KENYON TOUCHED ONE END OF THE SLIP TO A FLAME 292 In the Dead of Night I THE GIRL IN THE HANSOM CAB “Mysteries, my boy, are always things of the night.” --_A Saying of Garry Webster._ KENYON ate the good little German dinner which the Berlin always served, and looked amusedly out upon Broadway. “Apparently it’s the same old town,” said he. “A little more light, a few more people; but the same cocksureness, the same air of being the goal of all human effort.”