Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc, 1868-1947 / 2008-07-01 00:00:00

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THE CHINK IN THE ARMOUR
BY MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES
AUTHOR OF "THE END OF HER HONEYMOON," "THE LODGER," Etc.
1912
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP


"_But there is one chink in the chain armour of civilized communities.
Society is conducted on the assumption that murder will not be
committed._"--
The Spectator.


THE CHINK IN THE ARMOUR


CHAPTER I

A small, shiny, pink card lay on the round table in Sylvia Bailey's
sitting-room at the Hotel de l'Horloge in Paris.
She had become quite accustomed to finding one or more cards--cards from
dressmakers, cards from corset-makers, cards from hairdressers--lying on
her sitting-room table, but there had never been a card quite like this
card.
Although it was pink, it looked more like a visiting-card than a
tradesman's advertisement, and she took it up with some curiosity.
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