CONTENTS
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
[PART I.—A WOMAN OF MYSTERY]
[CHAPTER I.--A Bride of Five Hours]
[CHAPTER II.--The Lady in Number Three]
[CHAPTER III.--"He Knows the Word"]
[CHAPTER IV.--Mr. Ransom Waits]
[CHAPTER V.--In Corridor and in Room]
[CHAPTER VI.--The Lawyer]
[CHAPTER VII.--Rain]
[CHAPTER VIII.--Elimination]
[CHAPTER IX.--Hunter's Inn]
[PART II.—THE CALL OF THE WATERFALL]
[CHAPTER X.--Two Doors]
[CHAPTER XI.--Half-Past One in the Morning]
[CHAPTER XII.--"Georgian"]
[CHAPTER XIII.--Where the Mill Stream Runs Fiercest]
[CHAPTER XIV.--A Detective's Work]
[CHAPTER XV.--Anitra]
[CHAPTER XVI.--"Love"]
[CHAPTER XVII.--"I Don't Hear"]
[PART III.—MONEY]
[CHAPTER XVIII.--God's Forest, Then Man's]
[CHAPTER XIX.--In Mrs. Deo's Room]
[CHAPTER XX.--Between the Elderberry Bushes]
[CHAPTER XXI.--On the Cars]
[CHAPTER XXII.--A Suspicious Test]
[CHAPTER XXIII.--A Startling Decision]
[CHAPTER XXIV.--The Devil's Cauldron]
[PART IV.—THE MAN OF MYSTERY]
[CHAPTER XXV.--Death Eddy]
[CHAPTER XXVI.--Hazen]
[CHAPTER XXVII.--She Speaks]
[CHAPTER XXVIII.--Fifteen Minutes]
[CHAPTER XXIX.--"There is One Way"]
[CHAPTER XXX.--Not Yet]
[Works by Anna Katharine Green]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in her skirt (Frontispiece)
"I cut them letters there fifteen years ago. Now I'm to cut 'em out"
"A slight, dark form steals from the shadows and lays a hand on the stooping man's shoulder"
"Cormorants!" escaped his lips. "They look for a feast of death, but they will be disappointed"