THE CHIEF LEGATEE
by
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Author of"The Leavenworth Case," "The Woman in the Alcove," Etc., Etc.
Illustrated in Water-Colors by Frank T. Merrill
Copyright, 1906, by Anna Katharine Green RohlfsWeinstock, Lubin & Co.Special Edition,400 to 418 K. Street, Sacramento, Cal.New York and LondonThe Authors and Newspapers Association1906Copyright, 1906, byAnna Katharine Green RohlfsEntered at Stationers' Hall.All rights reserved.Composition, Electrotyping,Printing and Binding byThe Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mendinga rent in her skirt.]
CONTENTS
PART I.--A WOMAN OF MYSTERY
CHAPTER
I. A Bride of Five Hours
II. The Lady in Number Three
III. "He Knows the Word"
IV. Mr. Ransom Waits
V. In Corridor and in Room
VI. The Lawyer
VII. Rain
VIII. Elimination
IX. Hunter's Inn
PART II.--THE CALL OF THE WATERFALL
X. Two Doors
XI. Half-Past One in the Morning
XII. "Georgian"
XIII. Where the Mill Stream Runs Fiercest
XIV. A Detective's Work
XV. Anitra
XVI. "Love"
XVII. "I Don't Hear"
PART III.--MONEY
XVIII. God's Forest, Then Man's
XIX. In Mrs. Deo's Room
XX. Between the Elderberry Bushes
XXI. On the Cars
XXII. A Suspicious Test
XXIII. A Startling Decision
XXIV. The Devil's Cauldron
PART IV.--THE MAN OF MYSTERY
XXV. Death Eddy
XXVI. Hazen
XXVII. She Speaks
XXVIII. Fifteen Minutes
XXIX. "There is One Way"
XXX. Not Yet
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in herskirt (_Frontispiece_)
"I cut them letters there fifteen years ago. Now I'm to cut 'em out"
"A slight, dark form steals from the shadows and lays a hand on thestooping man's shoulder"
"Cormorants!" escaped his lips. "They look for a feast of death, but theywill be disappointed"
Facsimile Page of Manuscript from THE LEAVENWORTH CASE
"Yes, sir,"
Might even have enteredhis room late at night,crossed it and stood at hisside, without disturbing himsufficiently to cause him toturn his head?
"Yes," her hands pressingthemselves painfully together.
"Miss Leavenworth, the keyto the library door is missing."
She made no answer.
"It has been testified to,that previous to the actualdiscovery of the murder,you visited the door of thelibrary above. Will you tellus if the key to the doorwas there in the lock?"
"It was not."
Anna K. Green Rohlfs]
THE CHIEF LEGATEE
PART I
A Woman of Mystery
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