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