BROOD OF THE WITCH-QUEEN

CHAPTER

I. ANTONY FERRARA

II. THE PHANTOM HANDS

III. THE RING OF THOTH

IV. AT FERRARA'S CHAMBERS

V. THE RUSTLING SHADOWS

VI. THE BEETLES

VII. SIR ELWIN GROVES' PATIENT

VIII. THE SECRET OF DHOON

IX. THE POLISH JEWESS

X. THE LAUGHTER

XI. CAIRO

XII. THE MASK OF SET

XIII. THE SCORPION WIND

XIV. DR. CAIRN ARRIVES

XV. THE WITCH-QUEEN

XVI. LAIR OF THE SPIDERS

XVII. THE STORY OF ALI MOHAMMED

XVIII. THE BATS

XIX. ANTHROPOMANCY

XX. THE INCENSE

XXI. THE MAGICIAN

XXII. MYRA

XXIII. THE FACE IN THE ORCHID-HOUSE

XXIV. FLOWERING OF THE LOTUS

XXV. CAIRN MEETS FERRARA

XXVI. THE IVORY HAND

XXVII. THE THUG'S CORD

XXVIII. THE HIGH PRIEST HORTOTEF

XXIX. THE WIZARD'S DEN

XXX. THE ELEMENTAL

XXXI. THE BOOK OF THOTH



CHAPTER I

ANTONY FERRARA


Robert Cairn looked out across the quadrangle. The moon had just
arisen, and it softened the beauty of the old college buildings,
mellowed the harshness of time, casting shadow pools beneath the
cloisteresque arches to the west and setting out the ivy in stronger
relief upon the ancient walls. The barred shadow on the lichened
stones beyond the elm was cast by the hidden gate; and straight ahead,
where, between a quaint chimney-stack and a bartizan, a triangular
patch of blue showed like spangled velvet, lay the Thames. It was from
there the cooling breeze came.

But Cairn's gaze was set upon a window almost directly ahead, and west
below the chimneys. Within the room to which it belonged a lambent
light played.