CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Letter that Said Come 9

II. North Door and South Door 28

III. One Last Argument 47

IV. The Big Sycamore Tree 65

V. The Bugle Sounded Taps 83

VI. The Other Heir 101

VII. Inquiries 119

VIII. Confession 137

IX. Counter-Confessions 155

X. The Phantom Bugler 173

XI. Fleming Stone 191

XII. The Garage Fire 209

XIII. Sara Wheeler 227

XIV. Rachel’s Story 245

XV. The Awful Truth 263

XVI. Maida’s Decision 281

XVII. Maida and Her Father 299

XVIII. A Final Confession 317

THE MYSTERY OF
THE SYCAMORE