THE MYSTERY OF THE
CLASPED HANDS
GUY BOOTHBY’S NOVELS.
Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
| The Mystery of the Clasped Hands. |
| My Indian Queen. |
| A Maker of Nations. |
| Dr. Nikola’s Experiment. |
| Pharos, the Egyptian. |
| The Lust of Hate. |
| The Beautiful White Devil. |
| Dr. Nikola. |
| A Bid for Fortune. |
| The Marriage of Esther. |
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
THE MYSTERY OF THE
CLASPED HANDS
A NOVEL
BY
GUY BOOTHBY
AUTHOR OF DR. NIKOLA’s EXPERIMENT
PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN
MY INDIAN QUEEN, ETC.
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1901
Copyright, 1901,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
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 I
“I never knew such a fellow as you are for ferreting out these low,foreign eating-houses,” said Godfrey Henderson to his friend, VictorFensden, as they turned from Oxford Street into one of the narrowthoroughfares in the neighbourhood of Soho. “Why you should take suchtrouble, and at the same time do your digestion such irreparable injury,I can not imagine. There are any number of places where you can get achop or steak, free of garlic, in a decent quarter of the Town, to saynothing of being waited upon by a man who does look as if he had beenbrave enough to face the dangers of washing once or twice within fiveyears.”
His companion only laughed.
“Go on, my friend, go on,” he said, blowing a cloud of cigarette smoke.“You pretend to be a cosmopolitan of cosmopolitans,...