A Daughter of Delilah

The OCR is severely degraded and largely illegible, making reliable content identification impossible. However, the readable title page and contents indicate this is A Daughter of Delilah by Robert Lee Tyler, published by Street & Smith in their Criterion Series (No. 12) in 1896. The contents list shows the novel is divided into three books: "The Siren Danseuse," "Lord St. Leonards," and "Her Last Victim," totaling nineteen chapters. The narrative opens with a scene near Bridgley depot where the protagonist Edgar Alston, intoxicated after a country hotel visit, receives a false telegram about a train to Cincinnati. Unable to secure transport, the station agent directs him through a tunnel toward Covington. The remaining text is too corrupted to ascertain specific plot developments beyond these opening circumstances.