CHAPTER XIII Put to the Test Before more could be said by any of the band, a bell rang over in the dumb waiter, and two men at once...

CHAPTER XII The Boy Captive Let me beg the kind reader, who has followed me through my story thus far, to recall an important personage...

CHAPTER XI A Rebuff Schuyler Cluett waited patiently for the time allowed his wife, in which to write to him, to pass, and no letter...

CHAPTER X Deserted Colonel Richard Ivey came back to his elegant home, from his trip to the West. He had telegraphed to have the carriage...

CHAPTER IX Phantoms of the Past It was a pleasant night and Mrs. Richard Ivey sat alone in the handsome library of her elegant country...

CHAPTER VIII The Dashing Dragoon Colonel Dick Ivey was a bachelor and a man of vast wealth. He had been an only son, and the idol of his...

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,...

"Ho, my boy! do you wish to make a dollar?" "I do, sir—indeed I do." "What is your name?" "Will, sir." "Well, Will, can you keep ...

“To all such meetings as these!” cried Densham, lifting his champagne glass from under the soft halo of the rose-shaded electric lights. ...

“Mr. David Hume.” Reginald Brett, barrister-detective, twisted around in his easy chair to permit the light to fall clearly on the card ...

“Mr. Ridgway, ma’am.” The young woman who was giving the last touches to the very effective picture framed in her long looking glass ...

There could be no more fitting introduction to this most amazing narrative from the pen of James Peter Munn than that article in the ...

"It's so hard for working girls to get acquainted. They never meet a rich young man, and they don't want a poor one. It seems to me that ...

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...