| I. | The Thing on the Hearth |
| II. | The Reward |
| III. | The Lost Lady |
| IV. | The Cambered Foot |
| V. | The Man in the Green Hat |
| VI. | The Wrong Sign |
| VII. | The Fortune Teller |
| VIII. | The Hole in the Mahogany Panel |
| IX. | The End of the Road |
| X. | The Last Adventure |
| XI. | American Horses |
| XII. | The Spread Rails |
| XIII. | The Pumpkin Coach |
| XIV. | The Yellow Flower |
| XV. | Satire of the Sea |
| XVI. | The House by the Loch |
“THE first confirmatory evidence of the thing, Excellency, was the print of a woman's bare foot.”
He was an immense creature. He sat in an upright chair that seemed to have been provided especially for him. The great bulk of him flowed out and filled the chair. It did not seem to be fat that enveloped him. It seemed rather to be some soft, tough fiber, like the pudgy mass making up the body of a deep-sea thing. One got an impression of strength.
The country was before the open window; the clusters of cultivated shrub on the sweep of velvet lawn extending to the great wall that inclosed the place, then the bend of the river and beyond the distant mountains, blue and mysterious, blending indiscernibly into the sky. A soft sun, clouded with the haze of autumn, shone over it.
“You know how the faint moisture in the bare foot will make an impression.”
He paused as though there was some compelling force in the reflection. It