Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14818-h.htm or 14818-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14818/14818-h/14818-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14818/14818-h.zip) THE DAUGHTER OF ANDERSON CROW by GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON Author of _Beverly of Graustark_, _Jane Cable_, etc. With Illustrations by B. Martin Justice New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1907 [Illustration: Anderson Crow] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. ANDERSON CROW, DETECTIVE II. THE PURSUIT BEGINS III. THE CULPRITS IV. ANDERSON RECTIFIES AN ERROR V. THE BABE ON THE DOORSTEP VI. REFLECTION AND DEDUCTION VII. THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR VIII. SOME YEARS GO BY IX. THE VILLAGE QUEEN X. ROSALIE HAS PLANS OF HER OWN XI. ELSIE BANKS XII. THE SPELLING-BEE XIII. A TINKLETOWN SENSATION XIV. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY XV. ROSALIE DISAPPEARS XVI. THE HAUNTED HOUSE XVII. WICKER BONNER, HARVARD XVIII. THE MEN IN THE SLEIGH XIX. WITH THE KIDNAPERS XX. IN THE CAVE XXI. THE TRAP-DOOR XXII. JACK, THE GIANT KILLER XXIII. TINKLETOWN'S CONVULSION XXIV. THE FLIGHT OF THE KIDNAPERS XXV. AS THE HEART GROWS OLDER XXVI. THE LEFT VENTRICLE XXVII. THE GRIN DERISIVE XXVIII. THE BLIND MAN'S EYES XXIX. THE MYSTERIOUS QUESTIONER XXX. THE HEMISPHERE TRAIN ROBBERY XXXI. "AS YOU LIKE IT" XXXII. THE LUCK OF ANDERSON CROW XXXIII. BILL BRIGGS TELLS A TALE XXXIV. ELSIE BANKS RETURNS XXXV. THE STORY IS TOLD XXXVI. ANDERSON CROW'S RESIGNATION ILLUSTRATIONS Anderson Crow (Frontispiece) "'Safe for a minute or two at least,' he whispered" "A baby, alive and warm, lay packed in the blankets" "September brought Elsie Banks" "The teacher was amazingly pretty on this eventful night" "'What is the meaning of all this?'" The haunted house Wicker Bonner "Rosalie was no match for the huge woman" "She shrank back from another blow which seemed impending" "Left the young man to the care of an excellent nurse" "'I think I understand, Rosalie'" "'I beg your pardon,' he said humbly'" "It was a wise, discreet old oak" "The huge automobile had struck the washout" CHAPTER I Anderson Crow, Detective He was imposing, even in his pensiveness. There was no denying the fact that he was an important personage in Tinkletown, and to the residents of Tinkletown that meant a great deal, for was not their village a perpetual monument to the American Revolution? Even the most generalising of historians were compelled to devote at least a paragraph to the battle of Tinkletown, while some of the more enlightened gave a whole page and a picture of the conflict that brought glory to the sleepy inhabitants whose ancestors were enterprising enough to annihilate a whole company of British redcoats, once on a time.