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THE SILENT SEVEN
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. DEATH AT MIDNIGHT
? CHAPTER II. THE HOLLOW NEEDLE
? CHAPTER III. KLEIN'S SOLUTION
? CHAPTER IV. A STRANGE VISITOR
? CHAPTER V. MURDER REVEALED!
? CHAPTER VI. THE SCARAB RING
? CHAPTER VII. A MURDERER ESCAPES
? CHAPTER VIII. CARDONA CHECKS
? CHAPTER IX. PAGET BECOMES ACTIVE
? CHAPTER X. THE SILENT SEVEN
? CHAPTER XI. PAGET SEES A SHADOW
? CHAPTER XII. BLAKE TAKES A RIDE
? CHAPTER XIII. VISITOR AT NIGHT
? CHAPTER XIV. THROUGH NUMBER ONE
? CHAPTER XV. THE TRAP
? CHAPTER XVI. THE VERDICT
? CHAPTER XVII. BLAKE'S VISITOR
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE SHADOW ACTS
? CHAPTER XIX. OVER THE WIRES
? CHAPTER XX. THE EIGHTH MAN
? CHAPTER XXI. DEATH IS DELIVERED
? CHAPTER XXII. THE POWER OF THE SEVEN
? CHAPTER XXIII. THE RETURN

CHAPTER I. DEATH AT MIDNIGHT
A CHILLING night drizzle swilled through Eighty-first Street. It enshrouded the wizened figure of an
aged man, pausing before a brownstone house. He leaned on a silver-headed cane and pulled the collar
of his heavy coat closer about his ears. His thin, parched lips moved soundlessly in a continuous
muttering.

The house, a relic of other times, even as the figure that stood in the darkness before it, loomed gloomily,
like a mammoth mausoleum. The old man seemed to dread entering it. Fear shown on his mummified
face.

Then, with sudden effort, he climbed the steps with a crablike, sidewise gait. His trembling finger pressed
on the polished doorbell.

Presently the door opened onto a darkened vestibule. The old man entered a dimly-lit hallway without a
word. The person who had answered the door was, judging from his manner of deference, evidently a
servant.

Silently he took the old man's coat and hat. Then he pushed aside a sliding door at the side of the hallway
and stood in a respectful attitude as his master entered.