The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

Project Gutenberg's The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell 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.net Title: The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories Author: Ethel M. Dell Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16651] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SAFETY CURTAIN *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Paul Ereaut and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "You may take them to the devil!" Merryon said. Drawn by Arthur I Keller. (See page 85) THE SAFETY CURTAIN AND OTHER STORIES by ETHEL M. DELL AUTHOR OF:- The Hundreth Chance Greatheart The Lamp in the Desert The Tidal Wave The Top of the World The Obstacle Race The Way of an Eagle The Knave of Diamonds The Rocks of Valpré The Swindler The Keeper of the Door Bars of Iron Rosa Mundi Etc. GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Made in the United States of America This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London Made in the United States of America The Knickerbocker Press, New York CONTENTS The Safety Curtain The Experiment Those Who Wait The Eleventh Hour The Place of Honour ethel m.