THE Mystery of the Locks
BY E. W. HOWE
AUTHOR OF "THE STORY OF A COUNTRY TOWN"
BOSTON
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY
1885
Copyright, 1885,
By James R. Osgood and Company.
All Rights Reserved.
C. J. Peters and Son,
Electrotypers.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The Town of Dark Nights
CHAPTER II. The Locks
CHAPTER III. The Face at the Window
CHAPTER IV. Davy's Bend
CHAPTER V. A Troubled Fancy
CHAPTER VI. Pictures in the Fire
CHAPTER VII. The Locks' Ghost
CHAPTER VIII. A Remarkable Girl
CHAPTER IX. The "Apron and Password"
CHAPTER X. Tug Whittle's Booty
CHAPTER XI. The Whispers in the Air
CHAPTER XII. Ruined by Kindness
CHAPTER XIII. The Rebellion of the Baritone
CHAPTER XIV. The Ancient Maiden
CHAPTER XV. A Shot at the Shadow
CHAPTER XVI. The Step on the Stair
CHAPTER XVII. The Pursuing Shadow
CHAPTER XVIII. The Rise in the River
CHAPTER XIX. Mr. Whittle makes a Confession
CHAPTER XX. The Search in the Woods
CHAPTER XXI. Little Ben
CHAPTER XXII. Tug's Return
CHAPTER XXIII. The Going Down of the Sun
By the Same Author.
THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKS.
CHAPTER I.
THE TOWN OF DARK NIGHTS.
Davy's Bend—a river town, a failing town, and an old town, on a darknight, with a misty rain falling, and the stars hiding from thedangerous streets and walks of the failing town down by the sluggishriver which seems to be hurrying away from it, too, like itsinstitutions and its people, and as the light of the wretched day thathas just closed hurried away from it a few hours since.
The darkness is so