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                            THE OWLS’ HOUSE

                           By CROSBIE GARSTIN

                             [Illustration]

                           A. L. BURT COMPANY
                        Publishers      New York

       Published by arrangement with Frederick A. Stokes Company
                          Printed in U. S. A.




                         _Copyright, 1923, by_
                      FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

                         _All rights reserved_

               _Printed in the United States of America_

                            The Owls' House




                               CHAPTER I


It was late evening when John Penhale left the Helston lawyer’s office.
A fine drizzle was blowing down Coinage Hall Street; thin beams of light
pierced the chinks of house shutters and curtains, barred the blue dusk
with misty o