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Title: The Chief Legatee
Author: Anna Katharine Green
Release Date: March 18, 2006 [eBook #17999]
Language: English
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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
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