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Title: The Green Archer
Date of first publication: 1924
Author: Edgar Wallace
Date first posted: Sep. 11, 2013
Date last updated: Sep. 11, 2013
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The Green Archer

By EDGAR WALLACE

Author of
“The Clue of the New Pin,” etc.

[Illustration]

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with Small, Maynard & Company
Printed in U. S. A.

Second Printing, August, 1924
Third Printing, February, 1926

Printed in the United States of America

THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY
THE BOSTON BOOKBINDING COMPANY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Good Story 1
II. The Man Without Fear 5
III. John Wood of Belgium 11
IV. The Green Arrow 17
V. Abe Bellamy and His Secretary 23
VI. Do-Nothing Featherstone 28
VII. A Man at Police Headquarters 33
VIII. Fay Meets an Old Friend 37
IX. The Green Archer 42
X. The Handkerchief 47
XI. The Habits of Abe Bellamy 50
XII. Valerie’s Sprained Ankle 56
XIII. The Slayer of Children 60
XIV. The Dogs of Garre 66
XV. The Gas Bill 70
XVI. The Dogs Hear a Noise 76
XVII. At Lady’s Manor 80
XVIII. At El Moro’s 86
XIX. The Wife of Julius 90
XX. A Warning 94
XXI. The New Dogs 98
XXII. A Name in the Paper 103
XXIII. Spike Pays a Call 109
XXIV. The Great Adventure 113
XXV. “Coldharbour Smith” 120
XXVI. The Chase 124
XXVII. The Link 129
XXVIII. Valerie at Garre 133
XXIX. The Dungeons 136
XXX. The Story 143
XXXI. The New Butler Shows His Teeth 148
XXXII. The Search 152
XXXIII. Jim Explains 157
XXXIV. “The Golden East” 162
XXXV. A Warning to Smith 170
XXXVI. John Wood Talks 173
XXXVII. The Man Who Appeared 178
XXXVIII. The Thermometer 182
XXXIX. The Grey Lady 188
XL. The Archer 192
XLI. Doubt 198
XLII. Fay Has an Offer 202
XLIII. The Empty Dungeon 210
XLIV. Fay Goes Against Her Principles 215
XLV. The Raid 220
XLVI. How Valerie Went to the “Golden East” 224
XLVII. Fay Has a Message 231
XLVIII. Julius Takes Action 238
XLIX. The Questioning of Lacy 244
L. The Passing of Savini 249
LI. The Green Arrow 253
LII. The Man in the Boat 256
LIII. An Offer and a Rejection 262
LIV. Found in the Boat 268
LV. Valerie Tells a Story 272
LVI. The Tapping in the Night 278
LVII. The Trap 283
LVIII. A Visitor from Belgium 289
LIX. Valerie Meets John Wood 293
LX. The Hole in the Wall 298
LXI. The Rifles 303
LXII. The Cottage in the Wood 309
LXIII. Bellamy Hears of the Grey Lady 318
LXIV. “Mr. Bellamy is Dead” 324
LXV. Trapped 330
LXVI. The Siege 336
LXVII. A Green Archer Comes to Lady’s Manor 343
LXVIII. Fay in the Dungeon 346
LXIX. The Man from Cloister Wood 353
LXX. The Flood 359
LXXI. The Last Visit of the Green Archer 363
LXXII. When the Waters Rose 366
LXXIII. Julius Roasts Money 372
LXXIV. The Secret of the Green Archer 376