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Prologue [13]
I At the Button Mill [17]
II Seeing Millville [27]
III Enter a Detective [37]
IV Harvey Meets “A Dealer in Cattle” [49]
V A Serpent Whispers and a Woman Listens [57]
VI A Romance Dawns—and a Tragedy [67]
VII Harry Boland Hears from His Father [77]
VIII The Death of Tom Welcome [85]
IX In Which Some of Chicago’s Best People
Essay a Task Too Big for Them 		[95]
X The Adventures of a Newspaper Story [115]
XI A Bomb for Mr. Grogan [133]
XII Bad News from Millville [145]
XIII The Reader Meets Another Old Acquaintance [155]
XIV In Which the Wolf is Bitten by the Lamb [165]
XV The Search Begins for the Lost Sister [173]
XVI John Boland Meets Mary Randall [185]
XVII The Cafe Sinister [203]
XVIII Lost in the Levee [219]
XIX Mary Randall Goes to Live in a Wolf’s Den [229]
XX Druce Signs a Significant Document [241]
XXI Druce Proves a True Prophet [253]
XXII “The Mills of the Gods” [261]
XXIII After the Tragedy [271]
XXIV “The Highway of the Upright” [277]
XXV The Interests Versus Mary Randall [289]
XXVI Out on Bail [297]
XXVII Harvey Spencer Takes up the Trail [305]
XXVIII The Forces That Conquer [317]
XXIX The Call of Eternity [329]
XXX At the Wedding Feast [335]
XXXI With the Roses of Love [345]
XXXII At Mary Randall’s Summer Home [353]
Afterward [359]

LITTLE LOST SISTER

PROLOGUE

They came up suddenly over a bit of rising ground, the mill-owner and his friend the writer and student of modern industries, and stood in full view of the factory. The air was sweet with scent of apple-blossoms. A song sparrow trilled in the poplar tree.

“What do you think of our factory?” asked the man of business and of success, turning his keen, aggressive face towards his companion.

The other, the dreamer, waited for moments without speaking, carefully weighing the word, then he answered,

“Horrible.”

“My dear fellow!” The owner’s voice showed that he was really grieved. “Why horrible?”