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...

“Guilty!” The deep, sonorous voice of the foreman of the jury sounded out upon the solemn stillness of the crowded courtroom like the ...