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Title: Manslaughter

Author: Alice Duer Miller

Illustrator: F. R. Gruger

Release Date: September 23, 2010 [EBook #33985]

Language: English

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MANSLAUGHTER

BY ALICE DUER MILLER

AUTHOR OF COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN, Etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY
F. R. GRUGER
AND WITH
SCENES PROM THE PHOTOPLAY
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
ALICE DUER MILLER

First Printing, Oct., 1921
Second Printing, Oct., 1921
Third Printing, Nov., 1921
Fourth Printing, Nov., 1921
Fifth Printing, Dec., 1921
Sixth Printing, Jan., 1922
Seventh Printing, Feb., 1922

Printed in U. S. A.

[Illustration: SHE FELT HIS HAND, FIRM AND CONFIDENT ON HER SHOULDER.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SHE FELT HIS HAND, FIRM AND CONFIDENT ON HER SHOULDER.

LYDIA LITTLE REALIZES WHAT A TEMPTATION SHE IS PLACING BEFORE EVANS.

O'BANNON BEGINS HIS INVESTIGATION OF THE THEFT.

IT WAS A VERY TERRIFYING MOMENT FOR LYDIA.

LYDIA HAD SEEN THE BRACELET AND SHRUNK FROM IT.

SHE FLUNG HERSELF FACE DOWNWARD ON THE SOFA AND SOBBED.

MANSLAUGHTER

CHAPTER I

Whenever she and Lydia had a scene Miss Bennett thought of the first
scene she had witnessed in the Thorne household. She saw before her a
vermillion carpet on a mottled marble stair between high,
polished-marble walls. There was gilt in the railing, and tall lanky
palms stood about in majolica pots. Up this stairway an angry man was
carrying an angrier child. Miss Bennett could see that broad back in its
heavy blue overcoat, and his neck, above which the hair was still black,
crimsoning with fury and exertion. On one side of him she could see the
thin arms and clutching hands of the little girl, and on t