Chapter I: Front Matter

TO
HIRAM CLAPP, ESQ.,
_This Book_
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY HIS FRIEND
WILLIAM T. ADAMS.

THREE MILLIONS!

OR

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

BY
WILLIAM T. ADAMS
(_OLIVER OPTIC_)

AUTHOR OF “LIVING TOO FAST,” “IN DOORS AND OUT,” “TAKEN BY THE ENEMY,”
“WITHIN THE ENEMY’S LINES,” “ON THE BLOCKADE,” ETC.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Copyright, 1894, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THREE MILLIONS. 7

II. MR. ELIOT BUCKSTONE. 21

III. THE HUNGERFORD FAMILY. 33

IV. OFF THE GREAT BELL. 45

V. THE KINGMAN FAMILY. 58

VI. A STRANGE STORY. 71

VII. POOR MARY! 83

VIII. TO EUROPE AND BACK. 96

IX. HEALING THE WOUNDS. 109

X. ROSS KINGMAN. 122

XI. DOCTOR BILKS. 135

XII. DICK BIRCH. 144

XIII. DICK UNDER A SHADOW. 161

XIV. IN THE LIBRARY. 174

XV. DR. BILKS ON THE STAND. 188

XVI. DR. BILKS’S BABY. 203

XVII. THE SETTLEMENT. 217

XVIII. EVIDENCE WANTED. 231

XIX. THE ROPE AND THE WEIGHT. 244

XX. THE SHADOW AT PINE HILL. 256

XXI. THE DEMIGOD OF PINE HILL. 269

XXII. DICK BIRCH’S SUGGESTION. 282

XXIII. JULIA HUNGERFORD. 296

XXIV. POPPLETON GOSPEL. 309

XXV. DOCTOR LYNCH. 321

XXVI. THE PENITENT DEMIGOD. 335

XXVII. THE VERDICT. 349

XXVIII. THE DOCTOR HIMSELF AGAIN. 362

XXIX. FORGIVE AND FORGET. 374

XXX. THE RUSTIC BRIDGE. 387

XXXI. A HOMŒOPATHIC DOSE. 400

XXXII. CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. 412

XXXIII. DICK BIRCH AND LADY. 425

XXXIV. THIRTY YEARS OLD. 438

XXXV. THE LAST OF THE THREE MILLIONS. 450

THE

WAY OF THE WORLD.