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THE

FORTIETH DOOR

By MARY HASTINGS BRADLEY

AUTHOR OF
The Wine of Astonishment, etc.

1920

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TO

ARTHUR MILLS CORWIN

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CONTENTS

I. A RASH PROMISE

II. MASKS AND MASKERS

III. IN THE PASHA'S PALACE

IV. EXPLANATIONS

V. AT THE GARDEN GATE

VI. A SECRET OF THE SANDS

VII. TO McLEAN'S ASTONISHMENT

VIII. TEWFICK RECEIVES

IX. A WEDDING PRESENT

X. THE RECEPTION

XI. THE FORTY DOORS

XII. THE UNINVITED GUEST

XIII. THE BEY RETURNS

XIV. WITHIN THE WALLS

XV. UNDERGROUND

XVI. OUT OF THE DARKNESS

XVII. AZIZA

XVIII. AZIZA IS OFFENDED

XIX. AN INTERRUPTION

XX. BEYOND THE DOOR

XXI. MISS JEFFRIES MAKES A CALL

XXII. FROM THE BAZAARS

XXIII. IN THE DESERT

XXIV. THE TOMB OF A KING

XXV. IN CAIRO

XXVI. THE PAINTED CASE

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CHAPTER I

A RASH PROMISE

He didn't want to go. He loathed the very thought of it. Every flinching nerve in him protested.

A masked ball—a masked ball at a Cairo hotel! Grimacing through peep-holes, self-conscious advances, flirtations ending in giggles! Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking!

Unhappily he gazed upon the girl who was proposing

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