Signing the Contract, and What It Cost

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AND
WHAT IT COST.
MARTHA FINLEY,
AUTHOR OF THE “ELSIE BOOKS,” “WANTED—A PEDIGREE,” “MILDRED KEITH,” ETC., ETC.
“The web of our life is of a manifold yarn, good and ill together.”
Shakespeare.
New York:
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY,
Publishers.