An American Suffragette

To those noble and courageous women of England and America who are trying to demonstrate to the world that Civilization cannot reach the supreme heights of progress without giving freedom to the mental, spiritual and physical energies of women, and that government will always lack a vital element in its functions, so long as women are deprived of equal participation in its operations— This Book Is Respectfully Dedicated by the Author . "But life shall on and upward go; Th' eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats." — Whittier. CONTENTS PAGE I. A Doctor Returns from India 1 II. A Mystical Parade 15 III. The Mysterious Young Woman 22 IV. A Suffrage Bazaar and Ball 33 V. Hypnotism Used For An Anæsthetic 46 VI. Some Strenuous Anti-Suffragists 56 VII. Christian Science and Surgery 61 VIII. The Omnipresent Eyes ff Fifth Avenue 74 IX. Love, Jealousy And Music 82 X. A Discussion Of Progressive Women 91 XI. The Advancing Column of Democracy 99 XII. A Tubercular Knee and a Worried Surgeon 117 XIII. An Anti-Suffrage Meeting 125 XIV. Faith Is the Basis of all Progress 140 XV. An Evil Prophecy Begins to Bear Fruit 154 XVI. The Mysterious Murder of Emma Bell 164 XVII. The Arrest of Dr. John Earl 180 XVIII. Dr. Earl is Indicted for Murder 194 XIX. A Great Murder Trial Begins 199 XX. A Woman and Spooks Find a Letter 211 XXI. Silvia Holland's Great Plea to the Jury 225 AN AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE A DOCTOR RETURNS FROM INDIA Among the hundreds of people who were awaiting the arrival of the big Cunarder there were two groups, the second of which seemed determined that the first should not get far away. The young men of which this second group was composed represented the various newspapers of New York City, and while a "beat" was evidently impossible, each of them was determined to get a line for his own journal from the returning hero, Dr. John Earl, which he would not share with the others of the fraternity, and several of them held anxious consultations with their photographers who, by special permit, had been allowed upon the pier. The other group had moved a number of times to escape the cameras, and a red-haired youth was expatiating upon the glories of American scientific achievement, concluding with a peroration that called forth…