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  WORKS BY

  Anna Katharine Green

  THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. HAND AND RING. THE MILL MYSTERY. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY. MARKED "PERSONAL." MISS HURD: AN ENIGMA. DR. IZARD. THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOOR. LOST MAN'S LANE. AGATHA WEBB. ONE OF MY SONS. THE OLD STONE HOUSE. 7 TO 12 AND X. Y. Z. THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK. THE DEFENCE OF THE BRIDE, AND OTHER POEMS. RISIFI'S DAUGHTER. A DRAMA. THE HOUSE OF THE WHISPERING PINES.

  G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK & LONDON

  "'Let me have it!' cried Huckins. 'I have lived in thishole for fifteen years, till I have almost rotted away like the placeitself!'"]

  Cynthia Wakeham's Money

  By

  Anna Katharine Green

  Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "Hand and Ring," "The Mill Mystery,""The Defence of the Bride," etc.

  G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press

  COPYRIGHT, 1892

  BY

  ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

  Entered at Stationers' Hall, London BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

  Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New YorkG. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

  CONTENTS.

  BOOK I.

  A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

  CHAPTER. PAGE.

  I. A WOMAN'S FACE 1

  II. A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE 10

  III. CONTINUATION OF A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE 27

  IV. FLINT AND STEEL 36

  V. DIFFICULTIES 45

  VI. YOUNG MEN'S FANCIES 55

  VII. THE WAY OPENS 71

  VIII. A SEARCH AND ITS RESULTS 80

  IX. THE TWO SISTERS 92

  X. DORIS 97

  XI. LOVE 109

  XII. HOW MUCH DID IT MEAN? 122

  XIII. FRESH DOUBTS 142

  XIV. IN THE NIGHT WATCHES 150

  BOOK II.

  THE SECRET OF THE LABORATORY.

  XV. THE BEGINNING OF CHANGES 158

  XVI. A STRANGE VISITOR 169

  XVII. TWO CONVERSATIONS 181

  XVIII. SUSPENSE 193

  XIX. A DISCOVERY 205

  XX. THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON 213

  XXI. IN THE LABORATORY 232

  XXII. STEEL MEETS STEEL 239

  XXIII. A GROWING HORROR 249

  XXIV. FATHER AND CHILD 261

  XXV. EDGAR AND FRANK 272

  BOOK III.

  UNCLE AND NIECE.

  XXVI. THE WHITE POWDER 279

  XXVII. THE HAND OF HUCKINS 286

  XXVIII. IN EXTREMITY 300

  XXIX. IN THE POPLAR WALK 307

  XXX. THE FINAL TERROR 315

  XXXI. AN EVENTFUL QUARTER OF AN HOUR 327

  XXXII. THE SPECTRE OF THE LABORATORY 332

  CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY.

  BOOK I.

  A VILLAGE MYSTERY.