THE MYSTERY
OF MARY
BY
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL LUTZ
AUTHOR OF
MARCIA SCHUYLER,PHOEBE DEANE, ETC.
FRONTISPIECE BY
ANNA W. SPEAKMAN
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
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 |
THE MYSTERY OF MARY
THEY STRUGGLED UP, SCARCELY PAUSING FOR BREATH
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The Mystery of Mary
I
He paused on the platform and glancedat his watch. The train on which he hadjust arrived was late. It hurried away fromthe station, and was swallowed up in theblackness of the tunnel, as if it knew its ownshortcomings and wished to make up forthem.
It was five minutes of six, and as the youngman looked back at the long flight of stepsthat led to the bridge across the tracks, adelicate pencilling of electric light flashed intooutline against the city's deepening dusk,emphasizing the lateness of the hour. He hada dinner engagement at seven, and it wasyet some distance to his home, where a rapidtoilet must be made if he were to arrive ontime.
The stairway was long, and there weremany people thronging it. A shorter cutled down along the tracks under the bridge,and up the grassy embankment. It wouldbring him a whole block nearer home, and aline of cabs was standing over at the cornerjust above the bridge. It was against therules to walk beside the tracks—there wasa large sign to that effect in front of him—butit would save five minute