The Mayor's Wife
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Green Anna Katharine. The Mayor's Wife
CHAPTER I. A SPY’S DUTY
CHAPTER II. QUESTIONS
CHAPTER III. IN THE GABLE WINDOW
CHAPTER IV. LIGHTS—SOUNDS
CHAPTER V. THE STRANGE NEIGHBORS NEXT DOOR
CHAPTER VI. AT THE STAIR-HEAD
CHAPTER VII. A MOVING SHADOW
CHAPTER VIII. THE PARAGRAPH
CHAPTER IX. SCRAPS
CHAPTER X. A GLIMMER OF THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XI. BESS
CHAPTER XII. SEARCHINGS
CHAPTER XIII. A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIV. I SEEK HELP
CHAPTER XV. HARDLY A COINCIDENCE
CHAPTER XVI. IN THE LIBRARY
CHAPTER XVII. THE TWO WEIRD SISTERS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MORNING NEWS
CHAPTER XIX. THE CRY FROM THE STAIRS
CHAPTER XX. EXPLANATION
CHAPTER XXI. THE CIPHER
CHAPTER XXII. MERCY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE WIFE’S TALE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
CHAPTER XXV. THE FINGER ON THE WALL
CHAPTER XXVI. “BITTER AS THE GRAVE”
CHAPTER XXVII. A CHILD’S PLAYTHINGS
CHAPTER XXVIII. RESTITUTION
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I knew all the current gossip about Mrs. Packard before I had parted with Miss Davies. Her story was a simple one. Bred in the West, she had come, immediately after her mother’s death, to live with that mother’s brother in Detroit. In doing this she had walked into a fortune. Her uncle was a rich man and when he died, which was about a year after her marriage with Mr. Packard and removal to C—, she found herself the recipient of an enormous legacy. She was therefore a woman of independent means, an advantage which, added to personal attractions of a high order, and manners at once dignified and winning, caused her to be universally regarded as a woman greatly to be envied by all who appreciated a well-founded popularity.
So much for public opinion. It differs materially from that just given me by her husband.
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Fact one for me to establish.
“The wives of men like you—men much before the world, men in the thick of strife, social and political—often receive letters of a very threatening character.”
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