MANSLAUGHTER
BY ALICE DUER MILLER
AUTHOR OF COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
F. R. GRUGER
AND WITH
SCENES PROM THE PHOTOPLAY
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
GROSSET & DUNLP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
ALICE DUER MILLER
First Printing, Oct., 1921
Second Printing, Oct., 1921
Third Printing, Nov., 1921
Fourth Printing, Nov., 1921
Fifth Printing, Dec., 1921
Sixth Printing, Jan., 1922
Seventh Printing, Feb., 1922
Printed in U. S. A.
SHE FELT HIS HAND, FIRM AND CONFIDENT ON HER SHOULDER.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
THE NOVELS OF MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD'S STORIES OF ADVENTURE
EDGAR RICE BURROUGH'S NOVELS
FLORENCE L. BARCLAY'S NOVELS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
SHE FELT HIS HAND, FIRM AND CONFIDENT ON HER SHOULDER.
LYDIA LITTLE REALIZES WHAT A TEMPTATION SHE IS PLACING BEFORE EVANS.
O'BANNON BEGINS HIS INVESTIGATION OF THE THEFT.
IT WAS A VERY TERRIFYING MOMENT FOR LYDIA.
LYDIA HAD SEEN THE BRACELET AND SHRUNK FROM IT.
SHE FLUNG HERSELF FACE DOWNWARD ON THE SOFA AND SOBBED.
MANSLAUGHTER
CHAPTER I
Whenever she and Lydia had a scene Miss Bennett thought of the firstscene she had witnessed in the Thorne household. She saw before her avermillion carpet on a mottled marble stair between high,polished-marble walls. There was gilt in the railing, and tall lankypalms stood about in majolica pots. Up this stairway an angry man wascarrying an angrier child. Miss Bennett could see that broad back in itsheavy blue overcoat, and his neck, above which the hair was still black,crimsoning with fury and exertion. On one side of him she could see th