Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 54608-h.htm or 54608-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54608/54608-h/54608-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54608/54608-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/ralphraymondshei00alge Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by plus signs is in bold face (+bold+. RALPH RAYMOND'S HEIR by HORATIO ALGER, JR. Author of "Mark Manning's Mission," "A Debt of Honor," "Bernard Brook's Adventures," "Ben Bruce," "Mark Mason's Victory," etc., etc. A. L. Burt Company, Publishers New York [Illustration: "Who are you?" asked Cromwell. "I am the spirit of the boy you murdered," answered Robert. Page 176. _Ralph Raymond's Heir_] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE MYSTERIOUS CUSTOMER. 1 II. THE HOUSE IN TWENTY-NINTH STREET. 9 III. AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY. 17 IV. RALPH RAYMOND'S HEIR. 25 V. JAMES CROMWELL GAINS SOME INFORMATION. 33 VI. THE FACE AT THE FUNERAL. 41 VII. PAUL MORTON HAS A VISITOR. 49 VIII. JAMES CROMWELL'S TRIUMPH. 57 IX. HOW MATTERS WERE ARRANGED. 65 X. A VILLAINOUS SUGGESTION. 73 XI. GOLD VERSUS CRIME. 82 XII. ON GOAT ISLAND. 90 XIII. THE VEIL IS LIFTED. 99 XIV. CLARA MANTON. 107 XV. A DECLARATION, AND HOW IT WAS RECEIVED. 115 XVI. A MERCENARY PARENT. 123 XVII. LOVE AND LUCRE. 131 XVIII. A DARK DEED. 139 XIX. CATO. 147 XX. THE DAY AFTER. 155 XXI. MAJOR WOODLEY AND HIS DAUGHTER. 163 XXII. THE GHOST IN NO. 41. 171 XXIII. A STARTLING APPEARANCE. 180 XXIV. CONCLUSION. 188 WHITE-FACED DICK. 197 A BRUSH WITH THE CHINESE 215 A. L. Burt's Catalogue of Books for Young People by Popular Writers 1 RALPH RAYMOND'S HEIR. CHAPTER I. THE MYSTERIOUS CUSTOMER. A man of middle age, muffled up in an overcoat, got out of a Third Avenue car, just opposite a small drug shop. Quickly glancing up and down the street with a furtive look, as if he wished to avoid recognition from any passerby who might know him, he entered the shop.