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Chapter 1 THE STRAWBERRY GIRL.
Chapter 2 THE OLD COUPLE.
Chapter 3 THE LONE MANSION.
Chapter 4 THE ASTOR HOUSE AND THE ATTIC ROOM.
Chapter 5 MISTRESS AND SERVANT.
Chapter 6 THE TEMPTER AND THE TEMPTED.
Chapter 7 THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
Chapter 8 THE CITY COTTAGE.
Chapter 9 MRS. GRAY'S THANKSGIVING DINNER.
Chapter 10 THE BROTHER'S RETURN.
Chapter 11 THE MOTHER'S LETTER.
Chapter 12 STRIFE FOR AN EARL.
Chapter 13 THE MORNING LESSON.
Chapter 14 A WEDDING FORESHADOWED.
Chapter 15 THE MOTHER'S APPEAL.
Chapter 16 THE BRIDAL WREATH.
Chapter 17 AN HOUR BEFORE THE BALL.
Chapter 18 THE FORGED CHECK.
Chapter 19 NIGHT AND MORNING.
Chapter 20 THE LAST INTERVIEW.
Chapter 21 THE CITY PRISON.
Chapter 22 THE IMPRISONED WITNESS.
Chapter 23 THE THREE OLD WOMEN.
Chapter 24 THE FIRST NIGHT IN PRISON.
Chapter 25 LITTLE GEORGIE.
Chapter 26 MRS. GRAY AND THE PRISON WOMAN.
Chapter 27 STRUGGLES AND REVELS.
Chapter 28 ADA LEICESTER AND JACOB STRONG.
Chapter 29 ADA'S SOLITARY BREAKFAST.
Chapter 30 THE PRISON WOMAN IN ADA'S DRESSING-ROOM.
Chapter 31 THE TOMBS LAWYER.
Chapter 32 THE LAWYER'S VISIT TO HIS CLIENT.
Chapter 33 THE TRIAL FOR MURDER.
Chapter 34 THE TWO WITNESSES.
Chapter 35 THE VERDICT.
Chapter 36 THE PARENTS, THE CHILD AND GRANDCHILD.
Chapter 37 THE DAWNING OF LIGHT.
Chapter 38 GATHERING FOR THE EXECUTION.
Chapter 39 HEARTS AND CONSCIENCES AT REST.
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Chapter 38 GATHERING FOR THE EXECUTION.

He was a man of simple heart,

Patient and meek; the Christian part

Came to his soul as came the air

That heaved his bosom; hope, despair,

Were chastened by a holy faith!

Meek in his life he feared not death.

The day of execution arrived, and every hearth-stone in the great metropolis was shadowed by a knowledge that at an hour to

            
            

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