129

CHAPTER XII.

LEO'S WONDERFUL PERFORMERS 141

CHAPTER XIII.

WITTLEWORTH _VS._ CHECKYNSHAW 153

CHAPTER XIV.

MR. CHECKYNSHAW IS LIBERAL 166

CHAPTER XV.

A SUCCESS IN THE MOUSE BUSINESS 179

CHAPTER XVI.

THE LETTER FROM MARGUERITE 192

CHAPTER XVII.

THE LETTER FROM FRANCE 204

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE QUITCLAIM DEED 217

CHAPTER XIX.

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD 229

CHAPTER XX.

AN AVALANCHE OF GOOD FORTUNE 241

CHAPTER XXI.

MR. WITTLEWORTH'S WRONGS 254

CHAPTER XXII.

THE TWO MARGUERITES 266

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE GOLD LOCKET 279

CHAPTER XXIV.

ME AND CHOATE 291

CHAPTER XXV.

THE ELEGANT YOUNG LADY 303

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE RICH MAN'S DAUGHTER 315

MAKE OR BREAK;

OR,

THE RICH MAN'S DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER I.

MR. WITTLEWORTH GETS SHAVED.

"Next gentleman!" said Andre Maggimore, one of the journeyman barbers
in the extensive shaving saloon of Cutts & Stropmore, which was
situated near the Plutonian temples of State Street, in the city of
Boston.

"Next gentleman!" repeated Andre, in tones as soft and feminine as
those of a woman, when no one responded to his summons.

"My turn?" asked a spare young man of sixteen, throwing down the Post,
with a languid air, and rising to his feet.

"Yes, sir," replied Andre, politely; and if the speaker had been out of
sight, one would have supposed it was a lady who spoke. "Have your hair
cut?"

"No; shave."

The barber seemed to be startled by the announcement, though there was
not the