The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Blue Wall, by Richard Washburn Child, Illustrated by Harold J. Cue This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle Author: Richard Washburn Child Release Date: January 29, 2008 [eBook #24451] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLUE WALL*** E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) The Blue Wall A PICTURE THERE AMONG THE LAW BOOKS A PICTURE THERE AMONG THE LAW BOOKS THE BLUE WALL A STORY OF STRANGENESS AND STRUGGLE BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Contents Book I — The Problem of MacMechem I. The House Next Door 3 II. A Moving Figure 22 Book II — The Automatic Sheik I. A Woman At Twenty-Two 39 II. A Pledge to the Judge 65 III. The Torn Scrap 80 IV. The Face 101 V. At Dawn 126 VI. The Moving Figure Again 137 Book III — The Doctor’s Limousine I. A Shadow on the Curtain 157 II. Margaret 170 Book IV — A Pupil of the Great Welstoke I. Les Trois Folies 181 II. The House on the River 196 III. A Visitor At Night 219 IV. A Suppression of the Truth 240 V.