"No pulse! Her heart does not beat. Quick, Martin!" He left her and sprang to the table, seeking frantically for the electric switch that would start the machine.
"No!" The father's voice came quietly, but his eyes never left the figure that lay motionless on the floor.
"You must!" Paul Crossett put his hand out and shook the old man almost roughly. "You must! She is your daughter!"
"She is not my daughter. My daughter died ten months ago. My daughter's soul is with her mother's, as pure and as white as on the day I first held her in my arms. I owe no duty to this creature here. This empty shell from which the soul has been driven out. I am not her father, but if I were, I still would say--in God's name--let her die!"
He had taken a heavy mallet in his hand, and as he spoke he brought it down with all his strength upon the delicate mechanism in front of him. He struck twice, and there was nothing left but a mass of broken glass and a heap of bent and twisted wires.
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WITHIN THE LAW. By Bayard Veiller & Marvin Dana. Illustrated by Wm. Charles Cooke.
This is a novelization of the immensely successful play which ran for two years in New York and Chicago.
The plot of this powerful novel is of a young woman's revenge directed against her employer who allowed her to be sent to prison for three years on a charge of theft, of which she was innocent.
WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY. By Robert Carlton Brown. Illustrated with scenes from the play.
This is a narrative of a young and innocent country girl who is suddenly thrown into the very heart of New York, "the land of her dreams," where she is exposed to all sorts of temptations and dangers.
The story of Mary is being told in moving pictures and played in theatres all over the world.
THE RETURN OF PETER GRIMM. By David Belasco. Illustrated by John Rae.
This is a novelization of the popular play in which David Warfield, as Old Peter Grimm, scored such a remarkable success.
The story is spectacular and extremely pathetic but withal, powerful, both as a book and as a play.
This novel is an intense, glowing epic of the great desert, sunlit barbaric, with its marvelous atmosphere of vastness and loneliness.