“Oh! Oh!” she screamed. “It’s terrible! Down here—in the cellar——!” (_Frontispiece_) (THE MYSTERY OF JOCKEY HOLLOW) _The Arden Blake Mystery Series_ MYSTERY OF JOCKEY HOLLOW _By_ CLEO F. GARIS A. L. BURT COMPANY _Publishers_ New York Chicago _The Arden Blake Mystery Series_ BY CLEO F. GARIS The Orchard Secret Mystery of Jockey Hollow Missing at Marshlands COPYRIGHT, 1934, BY A. L. Burt Company Mystery of Jockey Hollow PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents CHAPTER PAGE I Fleeing in Alarm 7 II The Ghost Mansion 20 III Arden Wonders 30 IV Seeing the Dead 42 V Baffled 53 VI Introducing Granny 61 VII Trial by Jury 68 VIII The Ghost of Patience 75 IX A Warning 86 X The Missing Man 91 XI Callahan Collapses 98 XII A Strange Discovery 103 XIII Betty and the Books 113 XIV How Did It Happen? 120 XV Jim Doesn’t Know 130 XVI A Surprise 140 XVII Some Real Investigating 148 XVIII The Figure in Red 157 XIX Santa Claus 168 XX Harry Hears Something 178 XXI Rift in the Clouds 185 XXII Arden’s Idea 193 XXIII Mistletoe 205 XXIV A Strange Woman 214 XXV The Christmas Party 223 XXVI Two Ghosts 230