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  1. THE GREAT MISTAKE
  2. Mary Roberts Rinehart
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. EBOOKS BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
  45. A Letter from the Publisher

I think he had loved her, after his fashion. But there she stood beside him, menacing his very life. Even now I wonder if some vast anger, even jealousy, did not underlie what he did. He who had cared for her so long to die for the man who had deserted and neglected her. He may even have said it. “You always loved him, didn’t you? You never forgot him.”

“No. I never forgot him.”

That is the story. Tony has read it to this point. Now he puts it down. He sits very still for a time, staring at the fire. Then he draws a long breath. “Let’s forget it, darling. It’s over, thank God. Suppose we stop remembering and plan a bit.”

He has the blueprints ready. I put away the manuscript and settle myself to such things as plumbing and kitchen stoves and sunglass for a possible nursery in the future. From somewhere in the rear comes the odor of boiling cocoa, and soon Miss Mattie will rap at the door and I will slide off Tony’s knee.

“I thought you might like a little something to eat,” she says. “It will help you to sleep.”

It is the authentic voice of Beverly, and we bow to it.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1940 by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Copyright © 1968 by Alan G. Rinehart, Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr., Frederick R. Rinehart.

Cover design by Kathleen Lynch

This 2013 edition distributed by MysteriousPress.com/Head of Zeus

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 9781784088231

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Clerkenwell House
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London EC1R 0HT

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EBOOKS BY
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

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