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Title: The Millionaire Baby

Author: Anna Katharine Green

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THE MILLIONAIRE BABY

by

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

Author of "The Filigree Ball," "The Leavenworth Case," Etc.

A. L. Burt Company,
Publishers, New York

Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
January

Press of
Braunworth & Co.
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N. Y.

[Illustration: "HUSH! THERE IS NO DOUBT ON THAT TOPIC; THE CHILD IS
DEAD. LET THAT BE UNDERSTOOD BETWEEN US." ]

CONTENTS

I Two Little Shoes

II "A Fearsome Man"

III A Charming Woman

IV Chalk-Marks

V The Old House in Yonkers

VI Doctor Pool

VII "Find the Child!"

VIII "Philo! Philo! Philo!"

IX The Bungalow

X Temptation

XI The Secret of the Old Pavilion

XII Behind the Wall

XIII "We Shall Have to Begin Again"

XIV Espionage

XV A Phantasm

XVI "An All-Conquering Beauty"

XVII In the Green Boudoir

XVIII "You Look As If--As If--"

XIX Frenzy

XX "What Do You Know?"

XXI Providence

XXII On the Second Terrace

XXIII A Coral Bead

XXIV "Shall I Give Him My Word, Harry?"

XXV The Work of an Instant

XXVI "He Will Never Forgive"

XXVII The Final Struggle

THE MILLIONAIRE BABY

I

TWO LITTLE SHOES

The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, was a memorable one to me. For
two month