| I. | The Open Gate |
| II. | Scotland Yard |
| III. | The Cipher |
| IV. | Saidee Isaacs |
| V. | At Daybreak |
| VI. | Edged Tools |
| VII. | Passengers for Holland |
| VIII. | Lurking Shadows |
| IX. | Robbery under Arms |
| X. | A Return Stroke |
| XI. | Checkmated |
| XII. | Smoked-glasses |
| XIII. | The Long Arm |
| XIV. | The House of the Lions |
| XV. | Solved |
Swirled in the maze of a slow awakening, droppedthrough an abyss from zenith to nadir, the prisonercame out of his dreams and stared through the barsof his door to the pearl gray of the coming dawn.
C-45—better known in international underworldcircles as Chester Fay, alias Edward Letchmere—wasserving ten years at hard labor for the crime, committedagainst the peace and dignity of the country,of opening—by means unguessed by Scotland Yard—ajeweler’s strong-box in Hatton Gardens; which is,aside from “The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street,”the strictest patrolled district in the city of London.
Chester Fay, alias Edward Letchmere, studied thecrack of dawn as it crept over