THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES
A STORY OF NEW YORK LIFE.

BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

AUTHOR OF “THE LEAVENWORTH CASE,” “A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE,” ETC.

NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
27 & 29 West 23D Street

1881

TO
MY FATHER
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
AS EXPRESSING SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES OF
JUSTICE AND MERCY WHICH,
BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE, HE HAS
INSTILLED INTO MY
BREAST
FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD.

New York, April, 1881.

“When all else fails love saves”