Hand and Ring

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Green Anna Katharine. Hand and Ring

BOOK I. THE GENTLEMAN FROM TOLEDO

I. A STARTLING COINCIDENCE

II. AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN

III. THE UNFINISHED LETTER

IV. IMOGENE

V. HORACE BYRD

VI. THE SKILL OF AN ARTIST

VII. MISS FIRMAN

VIII. THE THICK-SET MAN

IX. CLOSE CALCULATIONS

X. THE FINAL TEST

XI. DECISION

BOOK II. THE WEAVING OF A WEB

XII. THE SPIDER

XIII. THE FLY

XIV. A LAST ATTEMPT

XV. THE END OF A TORTUOUS PATH

XVI. STORM

XVII. A SURPRISE

XVIII. A BRACE OF DETECTIVES

XIX. MR. FERRIS

XX. A CRISIS

XXI. HEART'S MARTYRDOM

XXII. CRAIK MANSELL

XXIII. MR. ORCUTT

XXIV. A TRUE BILL

XXV. AMONG TELESCOPES AND CHARTS

XXVI "HE SHALL HEAR ME!"

BOOK III. THE SCALES OF JUSTICE

XXVII. THE GREAT TRIAL

XXVIII. THE CHIEF WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

XXIX. THE OPENING OF THE DEFENCE

XXX. BYRD USES HIS PENCIL AGAIN

XXXI. THE CHIEF WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE

XXXII. HICKORY

XXXIII. A LATE DISCOVERY

XXXIV. WHAT WAS HID BEHIND IMOGENE'S VEIL

XXXV. PRO AND CON

XXXVI. A MISTAKE RECTIFIED

XXXVII. UNDER THE GREAT TREE

XXXVIII. UNEXPECTED WORDS

XXXIX. MR. GRYCE

XL. IN THE PRISON

XLI. A LINK SUPPLIED

XLII. CONSULTATIONS

XLIII. MRS. FIRMAN

XLIV. THE WIDOW CLEMMENS

XLV. MR. GRYCE SAYS GOOD-BYE

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THE town clock of Sibley had just struck twelve. Court had adjourned, and Judge Evans, with one or two of the leading lawyers of the county, stood in the door-way of the court-house discussing in a friendly way the eccentricities of criminals as developed in the case then before the court. Mr. Lord had just ventured the assertion that crime as a fine art was happily confined to France; to which District Attorney Ferris had replied:

"And why? Because atheism has not yet acquired such a hold upon our upper classes that gentlemen think it possible to meddle with such matters. It is only when a student, a doctor, a lawyer, determines to put aside from his path the secret stumbling-block to his desires or his ambition that the true intellectual crime is developed. That brute whom you see slouching along over the way is the type of the average criminal of the day."

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"Very odd," repeated the coroner; "so odd, I am inclined to think he did not sit there every moment of the time. It is but a step from the court-house here; he might well have taken the trip and returned while you wiped your eye-glasses or was otherwise engaged."

Mr. Byrd did not see fit to answer this.

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