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CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
SOMETHING WRONG 1
CHAPTER II.
FOUND 12
CHAPTER III.
NEMESIS 28
CHAPTER IV.
FERRARS 39
CHAPTER V.
IN CONSULTATION 52
CHAPTER VI.
"WHICH?" 64
CHAPTER VII.
RENUNCIATION 75
CHAPTER VIII.
TRICKERY 90
CHAPTER IX.
A LETTER 101
CHAPTER X.
THIS HELPS ME 117
CHAPTER XI.
DETAILS 127
CHAPTER XII.
"FERRISS-GRANT" 135
CHAPTER XIII.
THE "LAKE COUNTY HERALD" 148
CHAPTER XIV.
A GHOST 157
CHAPTER XV.
REBELLION 175
CHAPTER XVI.
"OUT OF REACH" 185
CHAPTER XVII.
RUTH GLIDDEN 196
CHAPTER XVIII.
SUDDEN FLITTINGS 208
CHAPTER XIX.
THROUGH THE MAIL 221
CHAPTER XX.
A WOMAN'S HEART 237
CHAPTER XXI.
"QUARRELSOME HARRY" 250
CHAPTER XXII.
IN NUMBER NINE 269
CHAPTER XXIII.
TWO INTERVIEWS 279
CHAPTER XXIV.
MRS. GASTON LATHAM 292
CHAPTER XXV.
THE LAST STROKE 301
THE LAST STROKE.
CHAPTER I.
SOMETHING WRONG.
It was a May morning in Glenville. Pretty, picturesque Glenville, low
lying by the lake shore, with the waters of the lake surging to meet it,
or coyly receding from it, on the one side, and the green-clad hills
rising gradually and gently on the other, ending in a belt of trees at
the very horizon's edge.
There is little movement in the quiet streets of the town at half-past
eight o'clock in the morning, save for the youngsters who, walking,
running, leaping, sauntering or waiting idly, one for another, are, or
should be, on their way to the school-house which stands upon the very
southernmost outskirts of the town, and a little way up the hilly
slope, at a reasonably safe remove from the willow-fringed lake shore.
The Glenville school-house was one of the earliest public buildings
erected in the village, and it had been "located" in what was
confidently expected to be the centre of the place. But the new and
late-coming impetus, which had changed the hamlet of half a hundred
dwellings to one of twenty times that number, and made of it a quiet and
not too fashionable little summer resort, had carried the business of
the place northward, and its residences still farther north, thus
leaving this seat of learning aloof from, and quite above the newer
town, in isolated and lofty dignity, surrounded by trees; in the
outskirts, in fact, of a second belt of wood, which girdled the lake
shore, even as the further and loftier fringe of timber outlined the
hilltops at the edge of the eastern horizon and far away.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
SOMETHING WRONG 1
CHAPTER II.
FOUND 12
CHAPTER III.
NEMESIS 28
CHAPTER IV.
FERRARS 39
CHAPTER V.
IN CONSULTATION 52
CHAPTER VI.
"WHICH?" 64
CHAPTER VII.
RENUNCIATION 75
CHAPTER VIII.
TRICKERY 90
CHAPTER IX.
A LETTER 101
CHAPTER X.
THIS HELPS ME 117
CHAPTER XI.
DETAILS 127
CHAPTER XII.
"FERRISS-GRANT" 135
CHAPTER XIII.
THE "LAKE COUNTY HERALD" 148
CHAPTER XIV.
A GHOST 157
CHAPTER XV.
REBELLION 175
CHAPTER XVI.
"OUT OF REACH" 185
CHAPTER XVII.
RUTH GLIDDEN 196
CHAPTER XVIII.
SUDDEN FLITTINGS 208
CHAPTER XIX.
THROUGH THE MAIL 221
CHAPTER XX.
A WOMAN'S HEART 237
CHAPTER XXI.
"QUARRELSOME HARRY" 250
CHAPTER XXII.
IN NUMBER NINE 269
CHAPTER XXIII.
TWO INTERVIEWS 279
CHAPTER XXIV.
MRS. GASTON LATHAM 292
CHAPTER XXV.
THE LAST STROKE 301
THE LAST STROKE.
CHAPTER I.
SOMETHING WRONG.
It was a May morning in Glenville. Pretty, picturesque Glenville, low
lying by the lake shore, with the waters of the lake surging to meet it,
or coyly receding from it, on the one side, and the green-clad hills
rising gradually and gently on the other, ending in a belt of trees at
the very horizon's edge.
There is little movement in the quiet streets of the town at half-past
eight o'clock in the morning, save for the youngsters who, walking,
running, leaping, sauntering or waiting idly, one for another, are, or
should be, on their way to the school-house which stands upon the very
southernmost outskirts of the town, and a little way up the hilly
slope, at a reasonably safe remove from the willow-fringed lake shore.
The Glenville school-house was one of the earliest public buildings
erected in the village, and it had been "located" in what was
confidently expected to be the centre of the place. But the new and
late-coming impetus, which had changed the hamlet of half a hundred
dwellings to one of twenty times that number, and made of it a quiet and
not too fashionable little summer resort, had carried the business of
the place northward, and its residences still farther north, thus
leaving this seat of learning aloof from, and quite above the newer
town, in isolated and lofty dignity, surrounded by trees; in the
outskirts, in fact, of a second belt of wood, which girdled the lake
shore, even as the further and loftier fringe of timber outlined the
hilltops at the edge of the eastern horizon and far away.
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