THE
HOUSE OF SPIES
BY
WARWICK DEEPING
With Frontispiece in color by
A. C. MICHAEL
New York
Cassell & Company, Limited
1913
Copyright, 1913, by
CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
The House of Spies
I
Jasper Benham tumbled out of bed, with the crack of a pistol-shotsplitting the silence of the night. Before him ran the long casementwindow, each diamond pane a silver lozenge set in a frame of jet.Moonlight came through and lay patterned upon the floor.
"Master Jasper—Master Jasper——!"
It was a plaintive howl from under the window, the voice of a man whowas afraid.
"Master Jasper—horse-thieves in t' yard!"
The lattice opened, and a pair of broad shoulders caught the moonlight.
"What's this—Jack——?"
John Bumpstead, the groom, was squeezing himself against the wall.
"Dear Lo