CHAPTER VII The Lost Gold Piece Several months have passed away since the daring attempt of the escaped convict to rob Mrs. Raymond in...

CHAPTER VI The Reward for a Convict The boy who had entered the room and dealt what appeared a death blow to the robber was a handsome...

CHAPTER V The Boy Protector Again to the crowded metropolis, my story shifts and to a part of the grand city where dwell those of the...

CHAPTER IV The Meeting Until the time for him to seek some means of reaching the spot, selected for the meeting, that he intended should...

CHAPTER III Tracked to His Lair There were no more handsome bachelor rooms in the city of Philadelphia, than were those of Schuyler...

CHAPTER II An Oath to Win, a Vow to Avenge The scene of my story shifts from the city to the country. A young man, evidently city-bred,...

CHAPTER XLVIII EARLE’S BEAUTIFUL THEORY Sumner Dalton lingered only a little more than a week after Earle’s arrival. But with his mind...

CHAPTER XLVII EDITHA’S GREETING Fifteen minutes after Madam Forrester left Earle a light step sounded outside the door, a trembling hand...

CHAPTER XLVI “WHAT A STRANGE STORY!” “Did you ever meet Mr. Dalton before?” Earle asked, excusing himself for his involuntary...

CHAPTER XLV MADAM SYLVESTER’S STORY Earle nearly bounded from his seat at this startling intelligence, and then, controlling himself for...

CHAPTER XLV SUMNER DALTON’S CONFESSION The telegram was from Paul Tressalia, and extremely startling and imperative in its nature. “Mr....

CHAPTER XLIII TRUE NOBILITY At the end of two hours, Earle went back to his charge, with a letter in his hand. Tom had been much...

CHAPTER XLII TOM DRAKE’S TRUST Tom Drake did have a hard time, as the physician predicted and Earle feared. He paid dearly for his one...

CHAPTER XLI TOM DRAKE’S BEWILDERMENT We have left Earle for a long time in his magnificent loneliness at Wycliffe. But magnificent...

CHAPTER XL ADIEU TO SARATOGA Editha had told her maid that she need not sit up for her, as it would doubtless be very late when she...

CHAPTER XXXIX CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES When Mr. Dalton turned so abruptly and left Mr. Tressalia and Editha he was indeed terribly...

CHAPTER XXXVIII AT SARATOGA Madam Sylvester went to the White Mountains with her party, as she had planned to do, while Mr. Dalton,...

CHAPTER XXXVII A CHANGE OF SCENE It was two o’clock in the afternoon when at length Paul Tressalia knocked upon Editha’s parlor door. It...

CHAPTER XXXVI A NEW CHARACTER From that day Paul Tressalia put every thought of self aside and devoted himself in delicate, tireless...

CHAPTER XXXV THE BEGINNING OF THE END Editha Dalton and her father went to Newport—he to get all the pleasure out of life that he could...