CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | A Hut in the Precipice | [9] |
| II. | The Unwelcome Guest | [17] |
| III. | A Strange Dismissal | [24] |
| IV. | The Hostess Jailer | [28] |
| V. | The Northern Ladies | [33] |
| VI. | Events on Deer Mountain | [39] |
| VII. | The Godson Possibility | [45] |
| VIII. | The Wordless Letters | [56] |
| IX. | The Spectre in the Forest | [67] |
| X. | A Skeleton in the Fire | [75] |
| XI. | The Mysterious 'Dolphus | [82] |
| XII. | The Secret of the Oak | [88] |
| XIII. | A Sob in the Dark | [98] |
| XIV. | The Going Out of Eve | [104] |
| XV. | The Question of Guilt | [109] |
| XVI. | A Call for Help | [119] |
| XVII. | Hermione's Advocate | [125] |
| XVIII. | A Startling Disclosure | [132] |
| XIX. | Tangled in the Coil | [140] |
| XX. | The Terrible Confession | [146] |
| XXI. | Opening the Past | [153] |
| XXII. | The Earthly Purgatory | [169] |
| XXIII. | What 'Dolphus Knows | [180] |
| XXIV. | The Woman with a Secret | [189] |
| XXV. | Lost in the Maze | [205] |
| XXVI. | A Tortured Conscience | [217] |
| XXVII. | A Hound on the Scent | [229] |
| XXVIII. | Probing a Deep Wound | [238] |
| XXIX. | Forged Letters | [251] |
| XXX. | The Vision in the Hut | [266] |
| XXXI. | A Flash of Light | [289] |
| XXXII. | What a Terrier Found | [296] |
| XXXIII. | The Restoration | [307] |
| XXXIV. | All That Happened | [312] |
| XXXV. | Readjustments | [323] |