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Title: The House of the Whispering Pines

Author: Anna Katharine Green

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Language: English

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THE HOUSE OF THE WHISPERING PINES

By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

1910

Author of

"The Leavenworth Case," "That Affair Next Door," "One of My Sons," etc.

"Mazes intricate,
Eccentric, interwov'd, yet regular
Then most, when most irregular they seem".

_Milton_

CONTENTS

BOOK I

SMOKE

I.--THE HESITATING STEP

II.--IT WAS SHE--SHE INDEED!

III.--"OPEN!"

IV.--THE ODD CANDLESTICK

V.--A SCRAP OF PAPER

VI.--COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS

VII.--CLIFTON ACCEPTS MY CASE

VIII.--A CHANCE! I TAKE IT

BOOK II

SWEETWATER TO THE FRONT

IX.--"WE KNOW OF No SUCH LETTER"

X.--"I CAN HELP YOU"

XI.--IN THE COACH HOUSE

XII.--"LILA--LILA!"

XIII.--"WHAT WE WANT IS HERE"

XIV.--THE MOTIONLESS FIGURE

XV.--HELEN SURPRISES SWEETWATER

XVI.--62 CUTHBERT ROAD

XVII.--"MUST I TELL THESE THINGS?"

XVIII.--ON IT WAS WRITTEN--

XIX.--"IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WILL FIND"

BOOK III

HIDDEN SURPRISES

XX.---"HE OR YOU! THERE IS NO THIRD"

XXI.--CARMEL AWAKES

XXII.---"BREAK IN THE GLASS!"

XXIII.--AT TEN INSTEAD OF TWELVE

XXIV.--ALL THIS STOOD

XXV.--"I AM INNOCENT"

XXVI.--THE SYLLABLE OF DOOM

XXVII.--EXPECTANCY

XXVIII.--"WHERE Is MY BROTHER?"

BOOK IV

WHAT THE PINES WHISPERED

XXIX.--"I REMEMBERED THE ROOM"

XXX.--"CHOOSE"

XXXI.--"WERE HER HANDS CROSSED THEN?"

XXXII.--AND I HAD SAID NOTHING!

XXXIII.--THE ARROW OF DEATH

XXXIV.--"STEADY!"

XXXV.--"As IF IT WERE A MECCA"

XXXVI.--THE SURCHARGED MOMENT

BOOK ONE

SMOKE

I

THE HESITATING STEP

To have reared a towering scheme
Of happiness, and to behold it razed,
Wer