Contents

[CHAPTER I.—THE LOVER'S TRYST.]
[CHAPTER II.—"YOU MUST NOT MARRY HIM—HEAVEN INTENDED YOU FOR ME."]
[CHAPTER III.—A TERRIBLE PLOT AGAINST A HELPLESS YOUNG GIRL.]
[CHAPTER IV.—FOND LOVE TO HATRED TURNED.]
[CHAPTER V.—"CAN YOU PERFORM THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY AT
ONCE, REVEREND SIR?"]

[CHAPTER VI.—THE VILLAIN AND HIS VICTIM.]
[CHAPTER VII.—HE RAISED HIS CLINCHED HAND, AND THE BLOW FELL HEAVILY
UPON THE BEAUTIFUL UPTURNED FACE.]

[CHAPTER VIII.—WHAT HAPPENED AT MIDNIGHT ON THE LONELY RIVER ROAD.]
[CHAPTER IX.—"THERE MUST NOT BE A SINGLE TRACE LEFT TO MARK THE SPOT
OF THE GRAVE YOU ARE NOW DIGGING," SAID THE MUFFLED STRANGER.]

[CHAPTER X.—SNATCHED FROM THE GRAVE.]
[CHAPTER XI.—"YOU ARE DISINHERITED—EVERYTHING IN THIS HOUSE IS MINE."]
[CHAPTER XII.—IMPENDING EVIL.]
[CHAPTER XIII.—IN THE TOILS OF THE CONSPIRATORS.]
[CHAPTER XIV.—"YOU ARE OUR PRISONER!"]
[CHAPTER XV.—THE NEW BROOM DID NOT SWEEP CLEAN.]
[CHAPTER XVI.—THE WILL DISINHERITING FAYNIE.]
[CHAPTER XVII.—EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE.]
[CHAPTER XVIII.—MARGERY'S LOVE DREAM.]
[CHAPTER XIX.—PRETTY MARGERY'S TERRIBLE DISCOVERY.]
[CHAPTER XX.—A FATHER'S RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION]
[CHAPTER XXI.—"I LIKE HER BETTER THAN ANY I HAVE MET—I SHALL MARRY HER."]
[CHAPTER XXII.—CLAIRE'S LOVER.]
[CHAPTER XXIII.—THE PROPOSAL.]
[CHAPTER XXIV.—AN AWFUL APPARITION.]
[CHAPTER XXV.—"I INTEND TO WATCH YOU DIE, INCH BY INCH, DAY BY DAY!"]
[CHAPTER XXVI.—A FIENDISH ACT.]
[CHAPTER XXVII.—HALLORAN MEETS WITH HIS REWARD.]
[CHAPTER XXVIII.—"SOME TERRIBLE PRESENTIMENT IS WARNING ME THAT
MY DARLING IS IN DANGER."]

[CHAPTER XXIX.—"GREAT GOD, IT IS A GHOST—THE GHOST OF FAYNIE!"]
[CHAPTER XXX.—AT THE LAST.]