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...

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...