The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Title: The Case of Jennie Brice
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Release Date: February 17, 2004 [EBook #11127] [Date last updated: April 24, 2005]
Language: English
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THE CASE of JENNIE BRICE
By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Author of THE MAN IN LOWER TEN, WHEN A MAN MARRIES WHERE THERE'S A WILL, ETC.
Illustrated by M. LEONE BRACKER
CHAPTER I
We have just had another flood, bad enough, but only a foot or two of water on the first floor. Yesterday we got the mud shoveled out of the cellar and found Peter, the spaniel that Mr. Ladley left when he "went away". The flood, and the fact that it was Mr. Ladley's dog whose body was found half buried in the basement fruit closet, brought back to me the strange events of the other flood five years ago, when the water reached more than half-way to the second story, and brought with it, to some, mystery and sudde