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Title: The Chief Legatee

Author: Anna Katharine Green

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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 Rohlfs
Weinstock, Lubin & Co.
Special Edition,
400 to 418 K. Street, Sacramento, Cal.
New York and London
The Authors and Newspapers Association
1906
Copyright, 1906, by
Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
All rights reserved.
Composition, Electrotyping,
Printing and Binding by
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

[Illustration: A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending
a 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