CHAPTER XIV AN INTERVIEW INTERRUPTED One day Earle was looking over his papers and arranging them more systematically when he came across...

CHAPTER XIII WILL HE BEAR THE TEST Editha knew something of all this, for she read the papers, and at the termination of the trial,...

CHAPTER XII THE ECCENTRIC CLIENT Several months passed and bravely did Earle Wayne battle with the world and fate. Cheerfully, too; for,...

CHAPTER XI THE BUNCH OF HOLLY “Silence is the perfect herald of joy; I were but little happy it I could say how much.” Words were never...

CHAPTER X “MY LIFE SHALL BE FOURSQUARE” The servant who answered the ring at Mr. Dalton’s door found standing there a tall, dignified...

CHAPTER IX “THAT IS MY ULTIMATUM” The twenty-third of December arrived, and Earle Wayne was a free man once more. Who can portray his...

CHAPTER VIII HOPES AND FEARS “Whew!” he exclaimed, after a moment, “my beloved daughter is developing a surprising spirit. I had no idea...

CHAPTER VII EDITHA’S RESOLUTION Everybody who knows anything about Newport—the Brighton of America—knows that the season there is one...

CHAPTER VI WHAT WAS IT? Sumner Dalton was a supremely selfish man. From his earliest boyhood, his chief aim had been to get gold, no...

CHAPTER V “I SHALL KEEP MY PLEDGE” Richard Forrester’s affairs were duly settled, and his property—an exceedingly handsome property,...

CHAPTER IV THE GREAT UNKNOWN A year went by. To Editha Dalton, it seemed to fly as if with magic wings, for she was yet a school-girl,...

CHAPTER III A FRIEND IN NEED “I did not do it. I have not that on my conscience to weigh me down. I am to suffer for another’s crime, and...

CHAPTER II THE ROBBERY About three months previous to the events related in the preceding chapter, on a dark and stormy night, two men...

CHAPTER XLI CONCLUSION Will stared curiously at his brother as he pronounced the mystical word “ambergris.” “I won’t keep you in the dark...

CHAPTER XL ALAN’S FORTUNE It was a happy family party that gathered around the humble fireside of Solomon Bertram the day following the...

CHAPTER XXXIX THE PRISONERS For several minutes Will Bertram was kept busy answering his brother’s rapid questions. He told Alan of all...

CHAPTER XXXVIII ON THE YACHT Will’s first impulse as he regained his freedom was to fly instantly from the boat, which an enforced...

CHAPTER XXXVII WILL’S ESCAPE Will Bertram, locked in the cabin apartment, could only imagine what was going on outside from the movements...

CHAPTER XXXVI AT PORTLAND When Jack Marcy saw Will Bertram’s face at the window in the boat he instantly comprehended, as he had said,...

CHAPTER XXXV THE RESCUED CASTAWAYS While Will Bertram was passing through strange and varied adventures the friends he had left behind...