CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE PANEL OF LIGHT
CHAPTER II. A CHEERFUL PRODIGAL.
CHAPTER III. ONLY THREE YEARS.
CHAPTER IV. KISSES AND KLEPTOMANIA.
CHAPTER V. THE VICTIM OF THE LAW.
CHAPTER VI. INFERNO.
CHAPTER VII. WITHIN THE LAW.
CHAPTER VIII. A TIP FROM HEADQUARTERS.
CHAPTER IX. A LEGAL DOCUMENT.
CHAPTER X. MARKED MONEY.
CHAPTER XI. THE THIEF.
CHAPTER XII. A BRIDEGROOM SPURNED.
CHAPTER XIII. THE ADVENT OF GRIGGS.
CHAPTER XIV. A WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.
CHAPTER XV. AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY.
CHAPTER XVI. BURKE PLOTS.
CHAPTER XVII. OUTSIDE THE LAW.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE NOISELESS DEATH.
CHAPTER XIX. WITHIN THE TOILS.
CHAPTER XX. WHO SHOT GRIGGS?
CHAPTER XXI. AGGIE AT BAY.
CHAPTER XXII. THE TRAP THAT FAILED.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CONFESSION.
CHAPTER XXIV. ANGUISH AND BLISS.
The lids of the girl's eyes lifted slowly, and she stared at the panel of light in the wall. Just at the outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression on her numbed brain. For a long time she continued to regard the dim illumination in the wall with the same passive fixity of gaze. Apathy still lay upon her crushed spirit. In a vague way, she realized her own inertness, and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again arouse to the full horror of her plight. In a curious subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from the torture that had exhausted her soul.
Of a sudden, her eyes noted the black lines that lay across the panel of light. And, in that instant, her spirit was quickened once again. The clouds lifted from her brain. Vision was clear now. Understanding seized the full import of this hideous thing on which she looked.... For the panel of light was a window, set high wit