CHAPTER XXXIV “IS THERE NO WAY OF ESCAPE?” Earle started at that sound. His mind was so intent on dealing with the strange man who...

CHAPTER XXXIII “I OWE YOU NOTHING” “Oh, why did I not know of this?” groaned Sumner Dalton, beating his brow with his hands. “I was,...

CHAPTER XXXII THE TABLES TURNED “Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.” Earle suddenly reeled at these...

CHAPTER XXXI A STORMY INTERVIEW The consternation that Earle and the officers experienced when they discovered that both Tom Drake and...

CHAPTER XXX FLOWN Yes, the strange man had mesmerized Editha Dalton. He possessed that peculiar power, or magnetic influence, something...

CHAPTER XXIX THE MISSING PAPER “How dare you enter this room at such an hour?” demanded the woman in attendance, who, after the first...

CHAPTER XXVIII EARLE WAYNE’S BOLD VENTURE He almost instantly fell into a profound and dreamless slumber. How long he slept thus he could...

CHAPTER XXVII THE SEARCH FOR EDITHA Three months later saw Earle Wayne firmly established as the master of Wycliffe, and over all other...

CHAPTER XXVI THE BATTLE WON In the great library at Wycliffe, three strongly contrasted men had met to solve one of life’s most complex...

CHAPTER XXV THE RIGHTFUL HEIR He did not realize how long he had been sitting there musing over these things until a slight movement of...

CHAPTER XXIV THE RECTOR’S DIARY The sweet-faced Miss Isabel did not try his patience long. She had been deeply interested in the young...

CHAPTER XXIII A STARTLING DISCOVERY Marion Vance, after leaving the man whom, during that one hour’s interview, she had learned to loathe...

CHAPTER XXII A WIFE’S APPEAL Mr. George Sumner was agreeably entertaining a few of his friends in his handsome lodgings in London one...

CHAPTER XXI FATAL TRUST Twenty-one or two years before our story opens there resided in Richmond, one of the beautiful suburbs of London,...

CHAPTER XX MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE It was quite dark in the street, she found, when she had groped her way down the rickety stairs to...

CHAPTER XIX THE FACE AT THE WINDOW “I’ll give you a description of Tom Drake first, so you will not fail to know him if you should ever...

CHAPTER XVIII JOHN LOKER’S CONFESSION The man had risen on his elbow and was staring with the most abject fear at Editha, trembling and...

CHAPTER XVII EDITHA BESTOWS CHARITY The time, for the first week or two after Earle’s departure, dragged heavily to Editha, and then,...

CHAPTER XVI THE PARTING “Oh, Earle, what can he mean? For the first time in my life I am actually afraid of my own father,” Editha said,...

CHAPTER XV A FATHER’S THREAT “Ah! Mr. Wayne!” with a peculiar emphasis upon his name that somehow startled Earle. “Quite an interesting...