Produced by D. Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN RAY BY WILLIAM LE QUEUX AUTHOR OF "THE UNNAMED" SECOND EDITION HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXV CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I. BESIDE STILL WATERS 1 CHAPTER II. THE MAN GOING NORTH 17 CHAPTER III. MAINLY ABOUT MYRA 31 CHAPTER IV. THE BLACK BLOW 50 CHAPTER V. IS MORE MYSTERIOUS 63 CHAPTER VI. CONTAINS A FURTHER ENIGMA 78 CHAPTER VII. THE CHEMIST'S ROCK 91 CHAPTER VIII. MISTS OF UNCERTAINTY 102 CHAPTER IX. THE MYSTERY OF SHOLTO 116 CHAPTER X. THE SECRET OF THE ROCK 126 CHAPTER XI. HOW THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENED 133 CHAPTER XII. WHO IS HILDERMAN? 149 CHAPTER XIII. THE RED-HAIRED MAN 167 CHAPTER XIV. A FURTHER MYSTERY 178 CHAPTER XV. CONCERNS AN ILLUSTRATED PAPER 188 CHAPTER XVI. DISCLOSES CERTAIN FACTS 202 CHAPTER XVII. SOME GRAVE FEARS 220 CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRUTH REVEALED 235 THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN RAY CHAPTER I. BESIDE STILL WATERS. The youth in the multi-coloured blazer laughed. "You'd have to come and be a nurse," he suggested. "Oh, I'd go as a drummer-boy. I'd look fine in uniform, wouldn't I?" the waitress simpered in return. Dennis Burnham swallowed his liqueur in one savage gulp, pushed back his chair, and rose from the table. "Silly young ass," he said, in a voice loud enough for the object of his wrath to hear. "Let's get outside."