Cynthia Wakeham's Money

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Green Anna Katharine. Cynthia Wakeham's Money

BOOK I. A VILLAGE MYSTERY

I. A WOMAN'S FACE

II. A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE

III. CONTINUATION OF A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE

IV. FLINT AND STEEL

V. DIFFICULTIES

VI. YOUNG MEN'S FANCIES

VII. THE WAY OPENS

VIII. A SEARCH AND ITS RESULTS

IX. THE TWO SISTERS

X. DORIS

XI. LOVE

XII. HOW MUCH DID IT MEAN?

XIII. FRESH DOUBTS

XIV. IN THE NIGHT WATCHES

BOOK II. THE SECRET OF THE LABORATORY

XV. THE BEGINNING OF CHANGES

XVI. A STRANGE VISITOR

XVII. TWO CONVERSATIONS

XVIII. SUSPENSE

XIX. A DISCOVERY

XX. THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON

XXI. IN THE LABORATORY

XXII. STEEL MEETS STEEL

XXIII. A GROWING HORROR

XXIV. FATHER AND CHILD

XXV. EDGAR AND FRANK

BOOK III. UNCLE AND NIECE

XXVI. THE WHITE POWDER

XXVII. THE HAND OF HUCKINS

XXVIII. IN EXTREMITY

XXIX. IN THE POPLAR WALK

XXX. THE FINAL TERROR

XXXI. AN EVENTFUL QUARTER OF AN HOUR

XXXII. THE SPECTRE OF THE LABORATORY

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It was verging towards seven o'clock. The train had just left Marston station, and two young men stood on the platform surveying with very different eyes the stretch of country landscape lying before them. Frank Etheridge wore an eager aspect, the aspect of the bright, hopeful, energetic lawyer which he was, and his quick searching gaze flashed rapidly from point to point as if in one of the scattered homes within his view he sought an answer to some problem at present agitating his mind. He was a stranger in Marston.

His companion, Edgar Sellick, wore a quieter air, or at least one more restrained. He was a native of the place, and was returning to it after a short and fruitless absence in the west, to resume his career of physician amid the scenes of his earliest associations. Both were tall, well-made, and handsome, and, to draw at once a distinction between them which will effectually separate their personalities, Frank Etheridge was a man to attract the attention of men, and Edgar Sellick that of women; the former betraying at first glance all his good qualities in the keenness of his eye and the frankness of his smile, and the latter hiding his best impulses under an air of cynicism so allied to melancholy that imagination was allowed free play in his behalf. They had attended the same college and had met on the train by chance.

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"'As you cannot speak, you must make signs. Shake your hand when you wish to say no, and move it up and down when you wish to say yes. Do you understand?'

"She signalled somewhat impatiently that she did, and then, lifting her hand with a tremulous movement, pointed anxiously towards a large Dutch clock, which was the sole object of adornment in the room.

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