Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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 [Illustration: "'Let me have it!' cried Huckins. 'I have lived in this hole for fifteen years, till I have almost rotted away like the place itself!'"] 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 York G. 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