The Carleton Case

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Ellery H. Clark. The Carleton Case

The Carleton Case

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

DOCTOR HELMAR VISITS THE BIRCHES

CHAPTER II

INQUIRING FRIENDS

CHAPTER III

THE PRODIGAL SON

CHAPTER IV

A FOOL AND HIS MONEY

CHAPTER V

A QUESTION OF HONOR

CHAPTER VI

DEATH COMES

CHAPTER VII

A PARTING

CHAPTER VIII

TEMPTATION

CHAPTER IX

THREE YEARS LATER

CHAPTER X

THE BIRCHES AGAIN

CHAPTER XI

THE EVENTS OF AN EVENING

CHAPTER XII

THE YELLOW STREAK

CHAPTER XIII

VAUGHAN DOUBTS

CHAPTER XIV

THE QUEST OF TRUTH

CHAPTER XV

MURDER WILL OUT

CHAPTER XVI

THE FAMILY NAME

CHAPTER XVII

IN THE BALANCE

CHAPTER XVIII

REPARATION

THE END

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Ellery H. Clark

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Edward Carleton looked up quickly, but without speaking, and when at last he did so, there was a new note of cordiality in his tone. “You knew Jack,” he repeated, “why, I’m glad to hear that, I’m sure. I’m very fond of my boy, Doctor. Boy? He’s a man now, though I can never seem to realize it. He’s only a little boy to me still, for all his six feet and his forty inches around the chest. Do you ever see him nowadays, Doctor?”

Helmar nodded. “Yes, indeed,” he answered readily, “not very often, of course. We’re in different lines of work, and both busy, I guess. But I run across him every once in a while. And this week we’re going to dine together. Jack and I and another fellow who was in our class—a sort of small reunion, to celebrate being five years out of college. He’ll be interested to know I’ve been out here.”

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