rper was wavering.

* * * * *

A half-hour later the door of Ransom's room was flung hurriedly open, and
loud cries for Mrs. Deo and the office clerk rang through the house. And
when they and others came running at the call, it was to find Mr. Ransom
and the lawyer hanging over the recumbent figure of the dead Hazen, and
the deaf girl Anitra pointing at the group, with wild and inarticulate
cries.

THE END

* * * * *

_Works by Anna Katharine Green_

THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. A Lawyer's Story.

"She has worked up a _cause celebre_ with a fertility of device and
ingenuity of treatment hardly second to Wilkie Collins or Edgar
Allan Poe."--_Christian Union_.

A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

"A most ingenious and absorbingly interesting story. The
readers are held spellbound until the last page."--_Cincinnati
Commercial_.

THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. A Story of New York Life.

"'The Sword of Damocles' is a book of great power, which far
surpasses either of its predecessors from her pen, and places her
high among American writers. The plot is complicated and is
managed adroitly.... In the delineation of characters she has
shown both delicacy and vigor."--_Congregationalist_.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

" ... She has never succeeded better in baffling the reader."--_Boston
Christian Register_.

HARD AND RING

"It is a tribute to the author's genius that she never tires and
never loses her readers.... It moves on clean and healthy....
It is worked out powerfully and skilfully."--_N. Y. Independent_.

THE MILL MYSTERY

X. Y. Z. and 7 TO 12: DETECTIVE STORIES

"Well written and extremely exciting and captivating.... She
is a perfect genius in the construction of a plot."--_N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser_.

THE OLD STONE HOUSE, AND OTHER STORIES

"It is a bundle of quite cleverly constructed pieces of fiction, with
which an idle hour may be pleasantly passed."--_N. Y. Independent_.

CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY

"'Cynthia Wakeham's Money' is a story notable even among the
many vigorous works of Anna Katharine Green."--_New York Sun_.

MARKED "PERSONAL."

"The ingenious plot is built up with all the skill of the writer of
'The Leavenworth Case' to the very last chapter, which contains
the surprising solutions of several mysteries."

MISS HURD: AN ENIGMA

"A strong and interesting novel in an entirely new field of romance."

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