E-text prepared by Annie R. McGuire from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38347-h.htm or 38347-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38347/pg38347-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38347/38347-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/millionairebaby00gree THE MILLIONAIRE BABY [Illustration: "I HAVE SAID SO MUCH THAT I MUST SAY MORE. LISTEN AND BE MY FRIEND." _p. 288_] THE MILLIONAIRE BABY by ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Author of The Filigree Ball, The Leavenworth Case, Etc. With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers Copyright 1905 The Bobbs-Merrill Company CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Two Little Shoes 1 II "A Fearsome Man" 30 III A Charming Woman 39 IV Chalk-Marks 52 V The Old House in Yonkers 69 VI Doctor Pool 80 VII "Find the Child!" 98 VIII "Philo! Philo! Philo!" 109 IX The Bungalow 122 X Temptation 132 XI The Secret of the Old Pavilion 140 XII Behind the Wall 176 XIII "We Shall Have to Begin Again" 196 XIV Espionage 201 XV A Phantasm 207 XVI "An All-Conquering Beauty" 211 XVII In the Green Boudoir 232 XVIII "You Look As If--As If--" 249 XIX Frenzy 263 XX "What Do You Know?" 274 XXI Providence 289 XXII On the Second Terrace 315 XXIII A Coral Bead 321 XXIV "Shall I Give Him My Word, Harry?" 331 XXV The Work of an Instant 338 XXVI "He Will Never Forgive" 340 XXVII The Final Struggle 350