The Mark of Cain
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Wells Carolyn. The Mark of Cain
CHAPTER I. THROUGH THE GREEN CORD
CHAPTER II. WHO COULD HAVE DONE IT?
CHAPTER III. PINCKNEY, THE REPORTER
CHAPTER IV. THE INQUEST BEGINS
CHAPTER V. THE SWEDE
CHAPTER VI. OUT OF THE WEST
CHAPTER VII. STEPHANOTIS
CHAPTER VIII. THE MILK BOTTLE
CHAPTER IX. A CLAUSE IN THE WILL
CHAPTER X. STRYKER’S HANDKERCHIEF
CHAPTER XI. DUANE THE DETECTIVE
CHAPTER XII. A NEW THEORY
CHAPTER XIII. FIBSY FIBS
CHAPTER XIV. TWO SUITORS
CHAPTER XV. THE TRAP THAT WAS SET
CHAPTER XVI. A PROMISE
CHAPTER XVII. MADAME ISIS
CHAPTER XVIII. ALL FOR LOVE
CHAPTER XIX. TWO AT LUNCHEON
CHAPTER XX. FLEMING STONE
CHAPTER XXI. STONE’S QUESTIONS
CHAPTER XXII. JUDGE HOYT’S PLAN
CHAPTER XXIII. IN KITO’S CARE
CHAPTER XXIV. ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXV. THE WHOLE TRUTH
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Coroner Berg came down stairs and joined the group in the drawing-room. He was a bristling, fussy little man, with a decided sense of his own importance and evidently inclined to make much of his office. His sparse, sandy hair stood out straight from his head, and his light blue eyes darted from one to another of the impatient people awaiting his report.
“Sad case,” he said, wringing his hands; “very sad case. Fine man like that, struck down in the prime of life. Awful!”
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The two went up to their rooms, but neither could sleep. Avice sat in an easy chair by her open window, wondering and pondering as to who could have been the criminal. Mrs. Black, on the other hand, thought only of herself and her own future.
She was a very beautiful woman, with finely cut features and raven black hair, which she wore in glossy smooth waves partly over her small ears. Her eyes were large and black and her mouth was scarlet and finely curved. She was of Italian parentage, though born in America. Her husband had been a New York lawyer, but dying, left her in greatly straitened circumstances and she had gladly accepted the position of housekeeper in the Trowbridge home. At first, she had rejected the advances of Rowland Trowbridge, thinking she preferred a younger and gayer man. But the kindness and generosity of her employer finally won her heart, or her judgment, and she had promised to marry him. It is quite certain, however, that Eleanor Black would never have come to this decision, had it not been for Rowland Trowbridge’s wealth.
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