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...

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...