The Chief Legatee
by Anna Katharine Green
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About this eBook
- Author
- Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 17999
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17999
- Release Date
- March 18, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Chief Legatee
- 2.By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN — Author of — "The Leavenworth Case," "The Woman in the Alcove," Etc., Etc. — Illustrated in Water-Colors by Frank T. Merrill — A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in her skirt.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE CHIEF LEGATEE
- 6.PART I — A Woman of Mystery
- 7.CHAPTER I — A BRIDE OF FIVE HOURS
- 8.CHAPTER II — THE LADY IN NUMBER THREE
- 9.CHAPTER III — "HE KNOWS THE WORD"
- 10.CHAPTER IV — MR. RANSOM WAITS
- 11.CHAPTER V — IN CORRIDOR AND IN ROOM
- 12.CHAPTER VI — THE LAWYER
- 13.CHAPTER VII — RAIN
- 14.CHAPTER VIII — ELIMINATION — "I cut them letters there fifteen years ago. Now I'm to cut 'em out."
- 15.CHAPTER IX — HUNTER'S INN
- 16.PART II — The Call of the Waterfall
- 17.CHAPTER X — TWO DOORS
- 18.CHAPTER XI — HALF-PAST ONE IN THE MORNING
- 19.CHAPTER XII — "GEORGIAN!"
- 20.CHAPTER XIII — WHERE THE MILL STREAM RUNS FIERCEST — A slight, dark form stole from the shadows and laid a hand on the stooping man's shoulder.
- 21.CHAPTER XIV — A DETECTIVE'S WORK
- 22.CHAPTER XV — ANITRA
- 23.CHAPTER XVI — "LOVE!"
- 24.CHAPTER XVII — "I DON'T HEAR"
- 25.PART III — Money
- 26.CHAPTER XVIII — GOD'S FOREST, THEN MAN'S
- 27.CHAPTER XIX — IN MRS. DEO'S ROOM
- 28.CHAPTER XX — BETWEEN THE ELDERBERRY BUSHES
- 29.CHAPTER XXI — ON THE CARS
- 30.CHAPTER XXII — A SUSPICIOUS TEST
- 31.CHAPTER XXIII — A STARTLING DECISION
- 32.CHAPTER XXIV — THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON
- 33.PART IV — The Man of Mystery
- 34.CHAPTER XXV — DEATH EDDY — "Cormorants!" escaped his lips. "They look for a feast of death, but they will be disappointed."
- 35.CHAPTER XXVI — HAZEN
- 36.CHAPTER XXVII — SHE SPEAKS
- 37.CHAPTER XXVIII — FIFTEEN MINUTES
- 38.CHAPTER XXIX — "THERE IS ONE WAY"
- 39.CHAPTER XXX — NOT YET
- 40.Works by Anna Katharine Green
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