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Title: The Golden Slipper

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Posting Date: February 1, 2009 [EBook #3071]
Release Date: February, 2002

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THE GOLDEN SLIPPER

And Other Problems for Violet Strange

By Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

CONTENTS

I THE GOLDEN SLIPPER

II THE SECOND BULLET

III THE INTANGIBLE CLEW

IV THE GROTTO SPECTRE

V THE DREAMING LADY

VI THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS

VII THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK

VIII MISSING: PAGE THIRTEEN

IX VIOLET'S OWN

THE GOLDEN SLIPPER AND OTHER PROBLEMS FOR VIOLET STRANGE

PROBLEM I THE GOLDEN SLIPPER

"She's here! I thought she would be. She's one of the three young ladies
you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium."

The gentleman thus addressed--a man of middle age and a member of the
most exclusive clubs--turned his opera glass toward the spot designated,
and in some astonishment retorted:

"She? Why those are the Misses Pratt and--"

"Miss Violet Strange; no other."

"And do you mean to say--"

"I do--"

"That yon silly little chit, whose father I know, whose fortune I know,
who is seen everywhere, and who is called one of the season's belles is
an agent of yours; a--a--"

"No names here, please. You want a mystery solved. It is not a matter
for the police--that is, as yet,--and so you come to me, and when I ask
for the facts, I find that women and only women are involved, and that
these women are not only young but one and all of the highest society.
Is it a man's work to go to the bottom of a combination like this? No.
Sex against sex, and, if possible, youth against youth. Happily, I know
such a person--a girl of gifts and extraordinarily well placed for the
purpose. Why she uses her talents in this direction--why, with means
enough to play the part natural to her as a successful debutante, she
consents to occupy herself with social and other mysteries, you must ask
h