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THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONER
By MAX MARCIN
Author of "Are You My Wife?" "Britz of Headquarters," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
Copyright, 1911, by
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
New York
Published October, 1911
Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He looked about him in a bewildered way
She felt herself seized with a desire to weep
She did not repel the arm he put around her waist
Mrs. Collins
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONER
CHAPTER I
Did she come to threaten or to plead?
The question, darting swiftly through his mind as his eyes took in theunfamiliar outline of her figure, produced a storm of agitation whichleft him gazing stupidly at her, with fixed eyes in which surprise andterror mingled.
He had never seen her before—his first moment of survey impressed thatclearly on him. Yet her presence in his home at this compromising hoursignified that she was involved, remotely or intimately, in his owntangled affairs. The thought impelled him to closer scrutiny of her.
She was pleasing to the eye. But whether her beauty