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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. The Dead Letter
The Dead Letter
Table of Contents
PART I
CHAPTER I. THE LETTER
CHAPTER II. EVENTS OF A NIGHT
CHAPTER III. THE FIGURE BENEATH THE TREES
CHAPTER IV. MORELAND VILLA
CHAPTER V. MR. BURTON, THE DETECTIVE
CHAPTER VI. TWO LINKS IN THE CHAIN
CHAPTER VII. ELEANOR
CHAPTER VIII. THE HAUNTED GRAVE
CHAPTER IX. THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
CHAPTER X. THE ANNIVERSARY
CHAPTER XI. THE LITTLE GUEST AND THE APPARITION
CHAPTER XII. THE NIGHT IN MORELAND VILLA
CHAPTER XIII. THE SHADOW ASSUMES SHAPE
PART II
CHAPTER I. THE LETTER
CHAPTER II. OUR VISITS
CHAPTER III. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER IV. EMBARKED FOR CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER V. ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER VI. AT LAST—AT LAST
CHAPTER VII. NOW FOR HOME AGAIN
CHAPTER VIII. THE RIPE HOUR
CHAPTER IX. JOINING THE MISSING LINKS
CHAPTER X. THE NEW LIFE
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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
An American Romance
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A touch of chagrin, a fear that we should suspect how deeply she was disappointed, caused Eleanor to appear in unusually high spirits. She sung whatever I asked of her; she played some delicious music; she parried the wit of others with keener and brighter repartee; the roses bloomed on her cheeks, the stars rose in her eyes. It was not an altogether happy excitement; I knew that pride and loneliness were at the bottom of it; but it made her brilliantly beautiful. I wondered what Moreland would feel to see her so lovely—I almost regretted that he was not there.
James, too, was in an exultant mood.
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