THE LONG ARM OF
MANNISTER
BY
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
Author "A MAKER OF HISTORY," "THE GREAT
SECRET," "THE AVENGER," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK SNAPP
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1908
Copyright, 1907, 1908,
By International Magazine Company.
Copyright 1908,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published September, 1908
COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co,
Boston, U. S. A.
CONTENTS
chapter page I. The Noxious Gift 1 II. Traske and the Bracelet 30 III. The Atruscan Silver Mine 64 IV. The Defeat of Rundermere 90 V. The End of John Dykes—Burglar 121 VI. A woman Intervenes 156 VII. The Regeneration of Jacobs 181 VIII. The Making of Hambledon 203 IX. At the End of the Journey 229 X. His Last Quest 254
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Her head dropped almost to her hands. . . ." I promise," she murmured Frontispiece
She sprang to her feet—a cry of anguish broke at last from her lips 29
"You don't really believe that I stole it!" 60
"Read that!" he exclaimed. "For God's sake read that!" 83
For a moment the room seemed to spin round" 152
The little scene was in its way dramatic enough 179
"I will not be left here alone with him" 201
"So far, Mannister, the luck has been on your side" 216
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