Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE DELAFIELD AFFAIR

by

FLORENCE FINCH KELLY

Author of "With Hoops of Steel," etc.

With Four Illustrations in Color by Maynard Dixon

Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co. 1909

Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1909

Published March 6, 1909

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. VENGEANCE AVOWED 9
II. THE EVIL THAT MEN DO 32
III. MISTAKE, OR BLUNDER? 39
IV. THE POWERS CONFER 52
V. CHASTISEMENT CONDIGN 64
VI. A STERN CHASE 78
VII. TALK OF MANY THINGS 90
VIII. SPECTRES OF THE PAST 114
IX. PERILS IN THE NIGHT 136
X. BY A HAIR'S BREADTH 145
XI. BATTLING THE ELEMENTS 160
XII. THE FIRST SHOT 177
XIII. THE SECOND SHOT 192
XIV. THREE LETTERS 210
XV. VILLAINY UNMASKED 221
XVI. A DOUBLE BLUFF 238
XVII. SENTENCE OF DEATH 256
XVIII. PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS 278
XIX. THE WORD UNSPOKEN 299
XX. NARROWING THE QUEST 321
XXI. THE SILENT DUEL 345
XXII. REFLECTION AND REACTION 360
XXIII. LOVE TO THE RESCUE 380
XXIV. THE HEAVENS OPEN 397
XXV. FULFILMENT OF THE LAW 414

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"He smiled down at her glowing young face, and his eyes shone with admiration" _Frontispiece_

"Upon man and beast the sand-storm beat bitterly" 168

"Like a flash Jose's arm swung back, ... and Curtis sprang lightly aside as the knife struck deep into the tree" 308

"It had come, the question she had meant not to let him ask" 404

THE DELAFIELD AFFAIR