THE
MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY
H•BEDFORD~JONES
THE MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY
"'You frightened me holy man!' she cried gaily. 'Confess to you, indeed! Not I.'"
THE MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY
BY
H. BEDFORD-JONES
FRONTISPIECE
BY
JOHN NEWTON HOWITT
GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1921
COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
CONTENTS
chapter page I. Carnival 3 II. Masquers 21 III. The Bandit 38 IV. Callers 58 V. The Masquer Unmasks 82 VI. Chacherre 107 VII. In the Open 125 VIII. Comus 143 IX. On the Bayou 169 X. Murder 190 XI. The Gangsters 209 XII. The Ultimatum 228 XIII. The Coin Falls Heads 249 XIV. Chacherre's Bundle 262 XV. When the Heavens Fall 280 XVI. The Impregnability of Mr. Fell 299 XVII. Mi-Carême 310
THE MARDI GRAS
MYSTERY
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