CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE BERNERS OF THE BURNING HEARTS.
CHAPTER II. JOHN LYON HOWE.
CHAPTER III. SYBIL BERNERS.
CHAPTER IV. THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGER.
CHAPTER V. THE LANDLORD'S STORY.
CHAPTER VI. ROSA BLONDELLE.
CHAPTER VII. DOWN IN THE DARK VALE.
CHAPTER VIII. BLACK HALL.
CHAPTER IX. THE GUEST-CHAMBERS.
CHAPTER X. THE JEALOUS BRIDE.
CHAPTER XI. LOVE AND JEALOUSY.
CHAPTER XII. "CRUEL AS THE GRAVE."
CHAPTER XIII. MORE THAN THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH.
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRST FATAL HALLOW EVE.
CHAPTER XV. THE MASQUERADE BALL.
CHAPTER XVI. ON THE WATCH.
CHAPTER XVII. DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.
CHAPTER XVIII. LYING IN WAIT.
CHAPTER XIX. SWOOPING DOWN.
CHAPTER XX. THE SEARCH.
CHAPTER XXI. SYBIL'S FLIGHT.
CHAPTER XXII. THE HAUNTED CHAPEL.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SOLITUDE IS INVADED.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE VERDICT AND THE VISITOR.
CHAPTER XXV. THE FALL OF THE DUBARRYS.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE SPECTRE.
CHAPTER XXVII. FEARFUL WAITING.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A GHASTLY PROCESSION.
CHAPTER XXIX. GHOSTLY AND MYSTERIOUS
CHAPTER XXX. FLIGHT AND PURSUIT.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE ARREST.
CHAPTER XXXII. A DESPERATE VENTURE
CHAPTER XXXIII. A FATAL CRISIS.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PURSUIT.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE FUGITIVES.
CRUEL AS THE GRAVE
A NOVEL.
BY MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.
AUTHOR OF “SELF-MADE,” “ISHMAEL,” “SELF-RAISED,” “FAIR PLAY,” “VIVIA,”
“MISSING BRIDE,” “A BEAUTIFUL FIEND,” “CHANGED BRIDES,” “RETRIBUTION,”
“HOW HE WON HER,” “A NOBLE LORD,” “BRIDE’S FATE,” “FALLEN PRIDE,”
“LADY OF THE ISLE,” “THE MAIDEN WIDOW,” “ALLWORTH ABBEY,”
“GYPSY’S PROPHECY,” “LOST HEIRESS,” “WIDOW’S SON,” “INDIA,”
“THREE BEAUTIES,” “BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN,” “BRIDAL EVE,”
“DISCARDED DAUGHTER,” “FATAL SECRET,” “TWO SISTERS,”
“CURSE OF CLIFTON,” “TRIED FOR HER LIFE,”
“PHANTOM WEDDING,” “LOVE’S LABOR WON,”
“FORTUNE SEEKER,” “FATAL MARRIAGE,”
“MOTHER-IN-LAW,” “CHRISTMAS GUEST,”
“FAMILY DOOM,” “WIFE’S VICTORY.”
| “He to whom
I gave my heart, with all its wealth of love,
Forsakes me for another.”—Medea.
“And we saw Medea burning
At her nature’s-planted stake.”—Browning. |
NEW YORK:
THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Nos. 72-76 Walker Street.
Copyright, 1888,
By T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS.
Cruel as the Grave.
