AT THE TIME APPOINTED

TWELFTH EDITION

By A. Maynard Barbour

THAT MAINWARING AFFAIR

ILLUSTRATED BY E. PLAISTED ABBOTT

12mo. Cloth, $1.50

"Possibly in a detective story the main object is to thrill. If so, 'That Mainwaring Affair' is all right. The thrill is there, full measure, pressed down and running over."—Life, New York

"The book that reminds one of Anna Katherine Green in her palmiest days.... Keeps the reader on the alert, defies the efforts of those who read backward, deserves the applause of all who like mystery."—Town Topics, New York

"The tale is well told, and the intricacies of the plot so adroitly managed that it is impossible to foresee the correct solution of the mysterious case until the final act of the tragedy.... Although vividly told, the literary style is excellent and the story by no means sensational, a fact that raises it above the level of the old-time detective story,"—Brooklyn Daily Eagle

AT THE TIME APPOINTED

BY

A. Maynard Barbour

AUTHOR OF "THAT MAINWARING AFFAIR," ETC.

WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY J. N. MARCHAND

"Yes, greater they who on life's battle-field, With unseen foes and fierce temptations fight" John D. Higinbotham

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers New York

Copyright, 1903

By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published April, 1903

Electrotyped and Printed by

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

TO

JOHN D. HIGINBOTHAM

"AS UNKNOWN, AND YET

WELL KNOWN"

CONTENTS

AT THE

TIME APPOINTED

Chapter I