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Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth

Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth

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LOST MAN'S LANE

A SECOND EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AMELIA BUTTERWORTH

BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

(MRS. CHARLES ROHLFS)

Author of "That Affair Next Door," "The Leavenworth Case," "The Forsaken Inn," etc.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK & LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1899

Copyright, 1898
BY ANNA KATHARINE ROHLFS

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

Set up and electrotyped March, 1898. Reprinted March, 1898;
April, 1898; July, 1898; Aug., 1898; Oct., 1898; Aug., 1899

The Knickerbocker Press, New York


To
ELIZABETH D. SHEPARD
COUSIN AND FRIEND
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED


PREFACE

A word to my readers before they begin these pages.

As a woman of inborn principle and strict Presbyterian training, I hate deception and cannot abide subterfuge. This is why, after a year or more of hesitation, I have felt myself constrained to put into words the true history of the events surrounding the solution of that great mystery which made Lost Man's Lane the dread of the neighboring country. Feminine delicacy, and a natural shrinking from revealing to the world certain weaknesses on my part, inseparable from a true relation of this tale, led me to consent to the publication of that meagre and decidedly falsified account of the matter which has appeared in some of our leading papers.

But conscience has regained its sway in my breast, and with all due confidence in your forbearance, I herein take my rightful place in these annals, of whose interest and importance I now leave you to judge.

Amelia Butterworth.

Gramercy Park, New York.


CONTENTS

BOOK I THE KNOLLYS FAMILY

I.—A VISIT FROM MR. GRYCE
II.—I AM TEMPTED
III.—I SUCCUMB
IV.—A GHOSTLY INTERIOR
V.—A STRANGE HOUSEHOLD
VI.—A SOMBRE EVENING
VII.—THE FIRST NIGHT
VIII.—ON THE STAIRS
IX.—A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
X.—SECRET INSTRUCTIONS
XI.—MEN, WOMEN, AND GHOSTS
XII.—THE PHANTOM COACH
XIII.—GOSSIP
XIV.—I FORGET MY AGE, OR, RATHER, REMEMBER IT

BOOK II THE FLOWER PARLOR

XV.—LUCETTA FULFILS MY EXPECTATION OF HER
XVI.—LOREEN
XVII.—THE FLOWER PARLOR
XVIII.—THE SECOND NIGHT
XIX.—A KNOT OF CRAPE
XX.—QUESTIONS
XXI.—MOTHER JANE
XXII.—THE THIRD NIGHT

BOOK III FORWARD AND BACK

XXIII.—ROOM 3, HOTEL CARTER
XXIV.—THE ENIGMA OF NUMBERS
XXV.—TRIFLES, BUT NOT TRIFLING
XXVI.—A POINT GAINED
XXVII.—THE TEXT WITNESSETH
XXVIII.—AN INTRUSION
XXIX.—IN THE CELLAR
XXX.—INVESTIGATION
XXXI.—STRATEGY

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