The House of the Whispering Pines

by Anna Katharine Green

THE HOUSE OF THE WHISPERING PINES

By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

1910

Author of

“The Leavenworth Case,” “That Affair Next Door,” “One of My Sons,” etc.

“Mazes intricate,
Eccentric, interwov’d, yet regular
Then most, when most irregular they seem”.

Milton

CONTENTS

[BOOK I]

SMOKE

[I.—THE HESITATING STEP]

[II.—IT WAS SHE—SHE INDEED!]

[III.—“OPEN!”]

[IV.—THE ODD CANDLESTICK]

[V.—A SCRAP OF PAPER]

[VI.—COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS]

[VII.—CLIFTON ACCEPTS MY CASE]

[VIII.—A CHANCE! I TAKE IT]

[BOOK II]

SWEETWATER TO THE FRONT

[IX.—“WE KNOW OF No SUCH LETTER”]

[X.—“I CAN HELP YOU”]

[XI.—IN THE COACH HOUSE]

[XII.—“LILA—LILA!”]

[XIII.—“WHAT WE WANT IS HERE”]

[XIV.—THE MOTIONLESS FIGURE]

[XV.—HELEN SURPRISES SWEETWATER]

[XVI.—62 CUTHBERT ROAD]

[XVII.—“MUST I TELL THESE THINGS?”]

[XVIII.—ON IT WAS WRITTEN—]

[XIX.—“IT’S NOT WHAT YOU WILL FIND”]