A Mystery Story for Girls
HOUR OF
ENCHANTMENT
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
COPYRIGHT 1933
BY
THE REILLY & LEE CO.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I The Three-Bladed Knife 11
- II The Sky Walk 24
- III Footsteps on the Stairs 32
- IV The Golden Temple 40
- V A Hearse in the Moonlight 50
- VI “The Chest Is Empty!” 62
- VII The Place of Darkness 70
- VIII Jeanne’s Double 82
- IX “Haunts” 94
- X Entering a New World 104
- XI From China’s Ancient Treasure 111
- XII The Dodge-Ems 121
- XIII Dances and Dreams 136
- XIV Two Black Horses and a Coffin 141
- XV Transforming a Mountain 147
- XVI Magic from the East 156
- XVII A Scream Brings Startling Results 164
- XVIII The Slim Stranger 175
- XIX A Sound in the Night 183
- XX Pictures on the Clouds 191
- XXI Work and Dreams 200
- XXII Beneath the Floodlights 205
- XXIII Golden Days 214
- XXIV The Battle in the Orange Grove 223
- XXV Once Again the Organ Plays at Midnight 230
- XXVI Carried Away in the Night 235
- XXVII Her Big Night 242
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HOUR OF ENCHANTMENT
CHAPTER I
THE THREE-BLADED KNIFE
Florence Huyler took one look atthe Chinaman. He was wearing a longyellow coat and carrying a huge yellow umbrella.His back was toward her.
“I can’t be sure,” she whispered. “If—”
She paused, uncertainly. In a moment hewould move, and then she would know—byhis ears.
Again, for a moment, she gave herself overto a study of the magnificent panorama thatlay before her. She was poised, like a pigeonin a belfry, but oh, so high u
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