THE SINS OF SÉVERAC BABLON

CONTENTS


1. TO INTRODUCE MR. JULIUS ROHSCHEIMER

2. "THIRTY MEN WHO WERE ALL ALIKE"

3. MIDNIGHT--AND THE MAN

4. THE HEAD OF CÆSAR

5. A MYSTIC HAND

6. THE SHADOW OF SÉVERAC BABLON

7. THE RING

8. IN THE DRESSING-ROOM

9. ES-SINDIBAD OF CADOGAN GARDENS

10. KIMBERLEY

11. MR. SANRACK VISITS THE HOTEL ASTORIA

12. LOVE, LUCRE AND MR. ALDEN

13. THE LISTENER

14. ZOE DREAMS

15. AT "THE CEDARS"

16. THE LAMP AND THE MASK

17. THE DAMASCUS CURTAIN

18. A WHITE ORCHID

19. THREE LETTERS

20. CLOSED DOORS

21. A CORNER IN MILLIONAIRES

22. THE TURKISH YATAGHAN

23. M. LEVI

24. "V-E-N-G-E-N-C-E"

25. AN OFFICIAL CALL

26. GRIMSDYKE

27. YELLOW CIGARETTES

28. AT THE PALACE--AND LATER




CHAPTER I

TO INTRODUCE MR. JULIUS ROHSCHEIMER


"There's half a score of your ancestral halls," said Julius Rohscheimer,
"that I could sell up to-morrow morning!"

Of the quartet that heard his words no two members seemed quite
similarly impressed.

The pale face of Adeler, the great financier's confidential secretary,
expressed no emotion whatever. Sir Richard Haredale flashed contempt
from his grey eyes--only to veil his scorn of the man's vulgarity
beneath a cloud of tobacco smoke. Tom Sheard, of the _Gleaner_, drew
down a corner of his mouth and felt ashamed of the acquaintance. Denby,
the music-hall comedian, softly whistled those bars of a popular ballad
set to the words, "I stood in old Jerusalem."