BY FERGUS HUME Author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," "The
CONTENTS.
PROLOGUE.
CHAPTER I. A QUEER ADVENTURE.
CHAPTER II. A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT.
PART I. A WOMAN'S BURDEN.
CHAPTER I. MRS. DACRE DARROW.
CHAPTER II. A RED RAG TO A BULL.
CHAPTER III. POVERTY HALL.
CHAPTER IV. MR. BARTON'S VISITOR.
CHAPTER V. BEHIND THE SCENES.
CHAPTER VI. MRS. DARROW'S BOMBSHELL.
CHAPTER VII. IN THE WOODS.
CHAPTER VIII. SHORTY.
CHAPTER IX. THE SHADOW.
CHAPTER X. THE SQUIRE'S SECRET.
CHAPTER XI. UNMASKED.
CHAPTER XII. MIRIAM KEEPS AN APPOINTMENT.
CHAPTER XIII. MRS. DARROW BECOMES REFRACTORY.
CHAPTER XIV. ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT.
CHAPTER XV. A NINE DAYS' WONDER.
CHAPTER XVI. A LITTLE FEMININE DIPLOMACY.
CHAPTER XVII. A ROMAN FATHER.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE REWARD OF MIRIAM.
PART II.
CHAPTER I. 5A, ROSARY MANSIONS.
CHAPTER II. JABEZ REDIVIVUS.
CHAPTER III. MRS. PARSLEY'S PROTEGE.
CHAPTER IV. DICKY'S DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER V. JUST IN TIME.
CHAPTER VI. SOME MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS AND A CONFESSION.
CHAPTER VII. MRS. DARROW SYMPATHISES.
CHAPTER VIII. MRS. PARSLEY SEES A GHOST.
CHAPTER IX. MORE TROUBLE.
CHAPTER X. THE MAJOR'S POINT OF VIEW.
CHAPTER XI. IN THE DEPTHS.
CHAPTER XII. JABEZ SEEKS AN OLD FRIEND.
CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF GERALD ARKEL.
CHAPTER XIV. A QUEER STORY QUEERLY TOLD.
EPILOGUE.
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