The Mill Mystery

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Green Anna Katharine. The Mill Mystery

I. THE ALARM

II. A FEARFUL QUESTION

III. ADA

IV. THE POLLARDS

V. DOUBTS AND QUERIES

VI. MRS. POLLARD

VII. ADVANCES

VIII. A FLOWER FROM THE POLLARD CONSERVATORY

IX. AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY

X. RHODA COLWELL

XI. UNDER THE MILL FLOOR

XII. DWIGHT POLLARD

XIII. GUY POLLARD

XIV. CORRESPONDENCE

XV. A GOSSIP

XVI. THE GREEN ENVELOPE

XVII. DAVID BARROWS

XVIII. A LAST REQUEST

XIX. A FATAL DELAY

XX. THE OLD MILL

XXI. THE VAT

XXII. THE CYPHER

XXIII. TOO LATE

XXIV. CONFRONTED

XXV. THE FINAL BLOW

XXVI. A FELINE TOUCH

XXVII. REPARATION

XXVIII. TWO OR ONE

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My room-mate was, as I have intimated, exceedingly frail and unobtrusive in appearance; yet when we came upon this scene, the group of men about the inanimate form of her lover parted involuntarily as if a spirit had come upon them; though I do not think one of them, until that moment, had any suspicion of the relations between her and their young pastor. Being close behind her, I pressed forward too, and so it happened that I stood by her side when her gaze first fell upon her dead lover. Never shall I forget the cry she uttered, or the solemn silence that fell over all, as her hand, rigid and white as that of a ghost's, slowly rose and pointed with awful question at the pallid brow upturned before her. It seemed as if a spell had fallen, enchaining the roughest there from answering, for the truth was terrible, and we knew it; else why those dripping locks and heavily soaked garments oozing, not with the limpid waters of the stream we could faintly hear gurgling in the distance, but with some fearful substance that dyed the forehead blue and left upon the grass a dark stain that floods of rain would scarcely wash away?

"What is it? Oh, what does it mean?" she faintly gasped, shuddering backward with wondering dread as one of those tiny streams of strange blue moisture found its way to her feet.

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But the doctor's sudden exclamation helped me out.

"What!" he wonderingly cried, "do you intend to sit up too?"

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