Signing the Contract and What it Cost
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Finley Martha. Signing the Contract and What it Cost
CHAPTER I. A WANDERER
CHAPTER II. RESCUED
CHAPTER III. ONE FOR LIFE
CHAPTER IV. A STRANGE REVELATION
CHAPTER V. BETROTHED
CHAPTER VI. THE SEARCH
CHAPTER VII. A WICKED SUGGESTION
CHAPTER VIII. MRS. ALDEN AN ABETTOR
CHAPTER IX. WHAT ESPY SAID ABOUT IT
CHAPTER X. FLOY’S RESOLVE
CHAPTER XI. LOVE AND PRIDE
CHAPTER XII “LOST! LOST! LOST!”
CHAPTER XIII. FLOY’S QUEST
CHAPTER XIV. A RIFT IN THE CLOUD
CHAPTER XV. ALONE
CHAPTER XVI. INITIATED
CHAPTER XVII. HETTY TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XVIII. A CRUEL BLOW
CHAPTER XIX. A GREAT SURPRISE
CHAPTER XX. A SUDDEN SUMMONS
CHAPTER XXI. GHOSTS OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XXII. REMORSE
CHAPTER XXIII. OLD FRIENDS AND NEW
CHAPTER XXIV. GILDED MISERY
CHAPTER XXV. STITCH, STITCH, STITCH
CHAPTER XXVI. THE MADAME AT HER SOLICITOR’S
CHAPTER XXVII. THE LONG-LOST DEED
CHAPTER XXVIII. MESSRS. TREDICK & SERVER
CHAPTER XXIX. A THORNY ROSE
CHAPTER XXX. PANSY
CHAPTER XXXI. A WONDROUS CHANGE
CHAPTER XXXII. ETHEL AT HOME
CHAPTER XXXIII. A LETTER, A STORY, AND A PROMISE
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE MADAME’S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXV. A FLITTING
CHAPTER XXXVI. REUNITED
CHAPTER XXXVII. LOVE’S POSY
CHAPTER XXXVIII “FOUND! FOUND! FOUND!”
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE MADAME’S QUEST IS ENDED
CHAPTER XL. THE CUP OVERFLOWS
CHAPTER XLI. AFTER THE RAIN, SUNLIGHT; AFTER THE STORM, A CALM
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A light covered wagon had just drawn up at the depot door, and out of it quickly stepped an elderly gentleman. Hurrying in with youthful alacrity, he glanced with eager haste from side to side of the dingy apartment. A look of keen disappointment swept over his features, changing instantly to one of grief and terror as his eye fell upon the little group about the settee.
“What – who – who is it? What has happened?” he asked tremulously, turning pale, and laying his hand on a chair-back as if to steady himself; then heaving a sigh of relief as the men stepped aside, giving him a view of the prostrate form, Jack Strong saying:
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“A poor, forsaken, dying creature, Mary; I’ve not been able to learn her name.” And he hurried to the assistance of Mike, who had fastened his horses and was preparing to lift the woman from the wagon.
Taking each an end of the buffalo-robe on which she lay, they carried her in between them and laid her gently down before the sitting-room fire.
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