AND OTHER MYSTERIES AND
ADVENTURES
BY
A. CONAN DOYLE
AUTHOR OF
“THE WHITE COMPANY,” “THE FIRM OF GIRDLESTONE,” ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK
INTERNATIONAL BOOK COMPANY
310-318 SIXTH AVENUE
BY
UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY.
[All rights reserved.]
[Pg 5]
| page | |
| My Friend the Murderer, | 7 |
| The Gully of Bluemansdyke, | 31 |
| The Parson of Jackman’s Gulch, | 60 |
| The Silver Hatchet, | 79 |
| The Man from Archangel, | 99 |
| That Little Square Box, | 129 |
| A Night among the Nihilists, | 155 |
| Bones, the April Fool of Harvey’s Sluice, | 171 |
| Selecting a Ghost, | 209 |
| The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, | 232 |
| The American’s Tale, | 248 |
| Our Derby Sweepstakes, | 258 |
[Pg 7]
“Number 43 is no better, Doctor,” said the head-warder,in a slightly reproachful accent, looking inround the corner of my door.
“Confound 43!” I responded from behind thepages of the Australian Sketcher.
“And 61 says his tubes are paining him. Couldn’tyou do anything for him?”
“He’s a walking drug-shop,” said I. “He hasthe whole British pharmacopœia inside him. I believehis tubes are as sound as yours are.”
“Then there’s 7 and 108, they are chronic,” continuedthe warder, glancing down a blue slip ofpaper. “And 28 knocked off work yesterda