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THE MILLIONAIRE BABY
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Author of "THE FILIGREE BALL," "THE LEAVENWORTH CASE," Etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
January
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
"HUSH! THERE IS NO DOUBT ON THAT TOPIC; THE CHILD IS DEAD. LET THAT BE UNDERSTOOD BETWEEN US."
CONTENTS
I. Two Little Shoes
II. "A Fearsome Man"
III. A Charming Woman
IV. Chalk-Marks
V. The Old House in Yonkers
VI. Doctor Pool
VII. "Find the Child!"
VIII. "Philo! Philo! Philo!"
IX. The Bungalow
X. Temptation
XI. The Secret of the Old Pavilion
XII. Behind the Wall
XIII. "We Shall Have to Begin Again"
XIV. Espionage
XV. A Phantasm
XVI. "An All-Conquering Beauty"
XVII. In the Green Boudoir
XVIII. "You Look As If—As If—"
XIX. Frenzy
XX. "What Do You Know?"
XXI. Providence
XXII. On the Second Terrace
XXIII. A Coral Bead
XXIV. "Shall I Give Him My Word, Harry?"
XXV. The Work of an Instant
XXVI. "He Will Never Forgive"
XXVII. The Final Struggle
THE MILLIONAIRE BABY
I
TWO LITTLE SHOES
The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, was a memorable one to me. Fortwo months I had had a run of bad luck. During that time I had failed toscore in at least three affairs of unusual importance, and the resultwas a decided loss in repute as well as great financial embarrassment.As I had a mother and two sisters to support and knew but one way to doit, I was in a state of profound discouragement. This was before I tookup the morning papers. After I had opened and read them, not a man inNew York could boast of higher hopes or greater confidence in his powerto rise by one bold str