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WORKS BY
Anna Katharine Green
THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. HAND AND RING. THE MILL MYSTERY. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY. MARKED "PERSONAL." MISS HURD: AN ENIGMA. DR. IZARD. THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOOR. LOST MAN'S LANE. AGATHA WEBB. ONE OF MY SONS. THE OLD STONE HOUSE. 7 TO 12 AND X. Y. Z. THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK. THE DEFENCE OF THE BRIDE, AND OTHER POEMS. RISIFI'S DAUGHTER. A DRAMA. THE HOUSE OF THE WHISPERING PINES.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK & LONDON
"'Let me have it!' cried Huckins. 'I have lived in thishole for fifteen years, till I have almost rotted away like the placeitself!'"]
Cynthia Wakeham's Money
By
Anna Katharine Green
Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "Hand and Ring," "The Mill Mystery,""The Defence of the Bride," etc.
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press
COPYRIGHT, 1892
BY
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New YorkG. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
A VILLAGE MYSTERY.
CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. A WOMAN'S FACE 1
II. A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE 10
III. CONTINUATION OF A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE 27
IV. FLINT AND STEEL 36
V. DIFFICULTIES 45
VI. YOUNG MEN'S FANCIES 55
VII. THE WAY OPENS 71
VIII. A SEARCH AND ITS RESULTS 80
IX. THE TWO SISTERS 92
X. DORIS 97
XI. LOVE 109
XII. HOW MUCH DID IT MEAN? 122
XIII. FRESH DOUBTS 142
XIV. IN THE NIGHT WATCHES 150
BOOK II.
THE SECRET OF THE LABORATORY.
XV. THE BEGINNING OF CHANGES 158
XVI. A STRANGE VISITOR 169
XVII. TWO CONVERSATIONS 181
XVIII. SUSPENSE 193
XIX. A DISCOVERY 205
XX. THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON 213
XXI. IN THE LABORATORY 232
XXII. STEEL MEETS STEEL 239
XXIII. A GROWING HORROR 249
XXIV. FATHER AND CHILD 261
XXV. EDGAR AND FRANK 272
BOOK III.
UNCLE AND NIECE.
XXVI. THE WHITE POWDER 279
XXVII. THE HAND OF HUCKINS 286
XXVIII. IN EXTREMITY 300
XXIX. IN THE POPLAR WALK 307
XXX. THE FINAL TERROR 315
XXXI. AN EVENTFUL QUARTER OF AN HOUR 327
XXXII. THE SPECTRE OF THE LABORATORY 332
CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY.
BOOK I.
A VILLAGE MYSTERY.