Produced by Al Haines. *WHITE MOTLEY* _A NOVEL_ BY MAX PEMBERTON AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE HUGUENOT," "THE GARDEN OF SWORDS," ETC., ETC. New York STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY 1911 _All rights reserved_ Copyright 1911 By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1911 *CONTENTS* CHAPTER PROLOGUE I THE GRAND PRIX AT ANDANA II A DARK HORSE GOES DOWN III CONCERNING A DISOBLIGING GHOST IV THE MAN WHO KNEW V THE GHOST TAKES WINGS VI A LESSON UPON SKIS VII AN ULTIMATUM VIII BENNY BECOMES AN OPTIMIST IX IN WHICH WE BAG A BRACE X A SPECIALIST IS CONSULTED XI THE VIGIL OF TRAGEDY XII FLIGHT XIII AFTER THE STORM XIV THE GENDARME PHILIP XV THE CORTÈGE XVI TWO OPINIONS XVII HERALDS OF GREAT TIDINGS XVIII THE EVE OF THE GREAT ATTEMPT XIX THE THIEF XX THE FLIGHT IS BEGUN XXI THE FLIGHT IS FINISHED XXII THE EMPTY HOUSE XXIII THE NIGHT MAIL XXIV THE DOCTOR INTERVENES XXV THE LIGHTS OF MAGADINO XXVI AT THE HOSPICE XXVII BENNY SETS OUT FOR ENGLAND *WHITE MOTLEY* *PROLOGUE* *THE NEW HOUSE AT HOLMSWELL* The New House at Holmswell lies, far back from the road, upon the great highway to Norwich. Local topographers delight to tell you that it is just forty-five miles from that city and five from the Cesarewitch course at Newmarket. They are hardly less eloquent when they come to speak of its late owner, Sir Luton Delayne, and of that unforgotten and well-beloved woman, the wife he so little deserved. To be sure, the house is not new at all, for it was built at the very moment when the great Harry put his hands into the coffers of the monasteries and called upon high Heaven to witness the justice of his robberies. They faced it with wonderful tiles some years ago, and stamped the Tudor rose all over it; but the people who first called it "new" have been dead these four hundred years, and it is only the local antiquary who can tell you just where the monastery (which preceded it) was built.