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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