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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

WEINSTOCK, LUBIN & CO.
SPECIAL EDITION,
400 to 418 K. Street, Sacramento, Cal.

New York and London
The Authors and Newspapers Association
1906

Copyright, 1906, by
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN ROHLFS

Entered at Stationers' Hall.
All rights reserved.

Composition, Electrotyping,
Printing and Binding by
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in her skirt.

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.--...