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The Chief Legatee
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Title: The Chief Legatee
Author: Anna Katherine Green
Release Date: March 18, 2006 [eBook #17999]
Language: English
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THE CHIEF LEGATEE
by
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "The Woman in the Alcove," Etc., Etc.
Illustrated in Water-Colors by Frank T. Merrill
Copyright, 1906, by Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs Weinstock, Lubin & Co. Special Edition, 400 to 418 K. Street, Sacramento, Cal. New York and London The Authors and Newspapers Association 1906 Copyright, 1906, by Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs Entered at Stationers' Hall. All rights reserved. Composition, Electrotyping, Printing and Binding by The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
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