Cynthia Wakeham's Money

The Leavenworth Case. A Strange Disappearance. The Sword of Damocles. Hand and Ring. The Mill Mystery. Behind Closed Doors. Cynthia Wakeham's Money. Marked Personal. Miss Hurd: An Enigma. Dr. Izard. That Affair Next Door. Lost Man's Lane. Agatha Webb. One of My Sons. The Old Stone House. 7 to 12 and X. Y. Z. The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock. The Defence of the Bride, and Other Poems. Risifi's Daughter. A Drama. The House of the Whispering Pines.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York & London
'Let me have it!' cried Huckins. 'I have lived in this hole for fifteen years, till I have almost rotted away like the place itself!'
Cynthia Wakeham's Money By Anna Katharine Green Author of The Leavenworth Case, Hand and Ring, The Mill Mystery, The Defence of the Bride, etc.
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1892 BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Entered at Stationers' Hall, London By G. P. Putnam's Sons Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. Putnam's Sons
It was verging towards seven o'clock. The train had just left Marston station, and two young men stood on the platform surveying with very different eyes the stretch of country landscape lying before them. Frank Etheridge wore an eager aspect, the aspect of the bright, hopeful, energetic lawyer which he was, and his quick searching gaze flashed rapidly from point to point as if in one of the scattered homes within his view he sought an answer to some problem at present agitating his mind. He was a stranger in Marston.
His companion, Edgar Sellick, wore a quieter air, or at least one more restrained. He was a native of the place, and was returning to it after a short and fruitless absence in the west, to resume his career of physician amid the scenes of his earliest associations. Both were tall, well-made, and handsome, and, to draw at once a distinction between them which will effectually separate their personalities, Frank Etheridge was a man to attract the attention of men, and Edgar Sellick that of women; the former betraying at first glance all his good qualities in the keenness of his eye and the frankness of his smile, and the latter hiding his best impulses under an air of cynicism so allied to melancholy that imagination was allowed free play in his behalf. They had attended the same college and had met on the train by chance.