Chapter I: Front Matter

THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS

THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS

BY

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

AUTHOR OF

"THE LEAVENWORTH CASE," "THE MILLIONAIRE BABY,"
"THE MAYOR'S WIFE," "THE FILIGREE BALL,"
ETC., ETC.

BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
1910

Copyright, 1909, by Richard G. Badger
Copyright, 1908 and 1909, by the Crowell
Publishing Company

All Rights Reserved

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I "Do you know what would happen to him" 9

II "Thousands in that safe" 17

III "How does it stand" 23

IV "Stenographers must be counted" 29

V "I've business with him" 35

VI "If I could tell you his story" 43

VII "I'm sure that I can get them for you" 51

VIII "I did as you bid me" 59

IX "'The safe door is opened,' I cried" 67

X "I have a scheme" 75

XI "She will go in" 81

XII "A block of steel" 89

XIII "I am from headquarters" 95

XIV "You do not answer" 103

XV "Now, if Fellows will stay away" 111

XVI "It was not paper I meant to have" 121

XVII "Now for my part of the bargain" 129

XVIII "What have you done among you" 139

XIX "So that was your motive" 147

XX "A jewel of far greater value" 155

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

OPPOSITE PAGE

"Now state your problem" Frontis

"He transferred his attention to the door" 38

"Grace, you have misunderstood me" 48

"An old man was looking up at the face of a young girl" 80

"She was ignorant of his presence" 100

"The door opened and Philip Andrews came in" 144

"'R. S. T.,' read the official" 152

"He was even present at the wedding" 158

THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS