Rights for this book: Public domain in the USA. This edition is published by Project Gutenberg. Originally issued by Project Gutenberg on 2012-01-01. To support the work of Project Gutenberg, visit their Donation Page. This free ebook has been produced by GITenberg, a program of the Free Ebook Foundation. If you have corrections or improvements to make to this ebook, or you want to use the source files for this ebook, visit the book's github repository. You can support the work of the Free Ebook Foundation at their Contributors Page. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Checkmate, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Checkmate Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Release Date: January 1, 2012 [EBook #38460] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHECKMATE *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. A list of amendments is at the end of the text. CHECKMATE BY THE SAME AUTHOR GUY DEVERELL ALL IN THE DARK THE WYVERN MYSTERY THE COCK AND ANCHOR WYLDER'S HAND THE WATCHER CHECKMATE ROSE AND THE KEY TENANTS OF MALLORY WILLING TO DIE GOLDEN FRIARS THE EVIL GUEST Checkmate BY J. S. LE FANU Downey & C o 12 York S t Covent Garden. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. MORTLAKE HALL, 1 II. MARTHA TANSEY, 7 III. MR. LONGCLUSE OPENS HIS HEART, 13 IV . MONSIEUR LEBAS, 17 V A CATASTROPHE, 22 VI. TO BED, 26 VII. FAST FRIENDS, 31 VIII. CONCERNING A BOOT, 38 IX. THE MAN WITHOUT A NAME, 43 X. THE ROYAL OAK, 48 XI. THE TELEGRAM ARRIVES, 55