- 1Chapter I — Man Proposes
- 2Chapter II — The Old Tree’s Revelations
- 3Chapter III — The Story of a Crime
- 4Chapter IV — The die Is Cast
- 5Chapter V — A Shrewd Scheme
- 6Chapter VI — A Warning
- 7Chapter VII — A Struggle for More Than Life
- 8Chapter VIII — Threads of the Fabric
- 9Chapter IX — Gone!
- 10Chapter X — Bonnie, Bewitching Claire
- 11Chapter XI — A Gleam of Light
- 12Chapter XII — A Message From the Dead
- 13Chapter XIII — Miss Arthur’s French Maid
- 14Chapter XIV — Wheels Within Wheels
- 15Chapter XV — Cora and the French Maid Measure Swords
- 16Chapter XVI — Face to Face
- 17Chapter XVII — Gathering Clues
- 18Chapter XVIII — The Hand of Friendship Wields the Surgeon’s Knife
- 19Chapter XIX — A Dual Renunciation
- 20Chapter XX — Struggling Against Fate
- 21Chapter XXI — Hagar and Cora
- 22Chapter XXII — To Be, to Do, to Suffer
- 23Chapter XXIII — Setting Some Snares
- 24Chapter XXIV — A Veritable Ghost
- 25Chapter XXV — Some Days of Waiting
- 26Chapter XXVI — Not a Bad Day’s Work
- 27Chapter XXVII — Claire Turns Circe
- 28Chapter XXVIII — The Curtain Rises on the Mimic Stage
- 29Chapter XXIX — A Startling Episode
- 30Chapter XXX — Waiting
- 31Chapter XXXI — Mr. Percy Shakes Himself
- 32Chapter XXXII — A Silken Belt
- 33Chapter XXXIII — Cross Purposes
- 34Chapter XXXIV — A Slight Complication
- 35Chapter XXXV — “Thou Shalt Not Serve Two Masters” Set at Naught
- 36Chapter XXXVI — Mr. Lord’s Letter
- 37Chapter XXXVII — “I Have Come Back to My Own!”
- 38Chapter XXXVIII — Cora Under Orders
- 39Chapter XXXIX — Mystified People
- 40Chapter XL — Davlin’s “Points”
- 41Chapter XLI — The Days Pass By
- 42Chapter XLII — A Struggle for Freedom
- 43Chapter XLIII — The Doctor’s Wooing
- 44Chapter XLIV — A Fresh Complication
- 45Chapter XLV — Mrs. Ralston’s Story
- 46Chapter XLVI — Cora “Stirs Up the Animals”
- 47Chapter XLVII — The Beginning of the End
- 48Chapter XLVIII — The Sword of Fate
- 49Chapter XLIX — As the Fool Dieth
- 50Chapter L — “And Then Comes Rest”
Madeline Payne, the Detective’s Daughter
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