-SUFFRAGISTS 56
VII. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND SURGERY 61
VIII. THE OMNIPRESENT EYES OF FIFTH AVENUE 74
IX. LOVE, JEALOUSY AND MUSIC 82
X. A DISCUSSION OF PROGRESSIVE WOMEN 91
XI. THE ADVANCING COLUMN OF DEMOCRACY 99
XII. A TUBERCULAR KNEE AND A WORRIED SURGEON 117
XIII. AN ANTI-SUFFRAGE MEETING 125
XIV. FAITH IS THE BASIS OF ALL PROGRESS 140
XV. AN EVIL PROPHECY BEGINS TO BEAR FRUIT 154
XVI. THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF EMMA BELL 164
XVII. THE ARREST OF DR. JOHN EARL 180
XVIII. DR. EARL IS INDICTED FOR MURDER 194
XIX. A GREAT MURDER TRIAL BEGINS 199
XX. A WOMAN AND SPOOKS FIND A LETTER 211
XXI. SILVIA HOLLAND'S GREAT PLEA TO THE JURY 225

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AN AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE

CHAPTER I

A DOCTOR RETURNS FROM INDIA

Among the hundreds of people who were awaiting the arrival of the big
Cunarder there were two groups, the second of which seemed determined
that the first should not get far away. The young men of which this
second group was composed represented the various newspapers of New York
City, and while a "beat" was evidently impossible, each of them was
determined to get a line for his own journal from the returning hero,
Dr. John Earl, which he would not share with the others of the
fraternity, and several of them held anxious consultations with their
photographers who, by special permit, had been allowed upon the pier.

The other group had moved a number of times to escape the cameras, and a
red-haired youth was expatiating upon the glories of American scientific
achievement, concluding with a peroration that called forth an
exclamation from one of the older men:

"Oh, shut up, Bedford; you sound like a Fourth of July oration. Who are
the people you are trying to snapshot for your lurid sheet?" he said
wearily, as becomes a Chicago newspaper man when in New York.

The red-headed one looked at him with cheerful surprise. "Don't you know
anybody?" he asked. "The tall, handsome blonde is Mrs. Ramsey, wi