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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lost Man's Lane, by Anna Katharine Green This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth Author: Anna Katharine Green Release Date: July 31, 2010 [EBook #33305] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOST MAN'S LANE *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) LOST MAN'S LANE A SECOND EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AMELIA BUTTERWORTH BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN (MRS. CHARLES ROHLFS) Author of "That Affair Next Door," "The Leavenworth Case," "The Forsaken Inn," etc. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK & LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1899 COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY ANNA KATHARINE ROHLFS Entered at Stationers' Hall, London Set up and electrotyped March, 1898. Reprinted March, 1898; April, 1898; July, 1898; Aug., 1898; Oct., 1898; Aug., 1899 The Knickerbocker Press, New York To ELIZABETH D. SHEPARD COUSIN AND FRIEND THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED PREFACE A word to my readers before they begin these pages. As a woman of inborn principle and strict Presbyterian training, I hate deception and cannot abide subterfuge. This is why, after a year or more of hesitation, I have felt myself constrained to put into words the true history of the events surrounding the solution of that great mystery which made Lost Man's Lane the dread of the neighboring country. Feminine delicacy, and a natural shrinking from revealing to the world certain weaknesses on my part, inseparable from a true relation of this tale, led me to consent to the publication of that meagre and decidedly falsified account of the matter which has appeared in some of our leading papers. But conscience has regained its sway in my breast, and with all due confidence in your forbearance, I herein take my rightful place in these annals, of whose
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