CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Mr. Freeman | [3] |
| II. | The Wreck near the Land's-End | [8] |
| III. | Alrina | [12] |
| IV. | The Unexpected Meeting | [16] |
| V. | John Brown and his favorite mare Jessie | [21] |
| VI. | The Family Party | [25] |
| VII. | Murder most foul | [30] |
| VIII. | The Wizard | [36] |
| IX. | Love and Mystery | [40] |
| X. | Alrina's troubles increase | [42] |
| XI. | Frederick Morley obstinately determines to ride the mare | [45] |
| XII. | The awful ride | [47] |
| XIII. | Its consequences | [50] |
| XIV. | Mrs. Brown tells the Conjuror a bit of her mind | [53] |
| XV. | The mysterious stranger at the Penzance Ball | [56] |
| XVI. | Josiah's astonishment at the effect produced by the display of his Treasure-trove | [60] |
| XVII. | The borrowed feathers of the peacock fail to conceal entirely the plumage of the jackdaw | [64] |
| XVIII. | The birds have taken flight | [67] |
| XIX. | The mysterious encounter | [71] |
| XX. | Aristocratic connections | [76] |
| XXI. | The Love-chase | [81] |
| XXII. | Alrina's first Love-letter | [88] |
| XXIII. | The Secret | [92] |
| XXIV. | Man is born to trouble and disappointment as the sparks fly upwards | [98] |
| XXV. | Retrospection and recrimination | [106] |
| XXVI. | Squire Pendray gets on his stilts and views Lieut. Fowler from a lofty eminence | [113] |
| XXVII. | The step in the wrong direction | [117] |
| XXVIII. | By doing a little wrong, great good is accomplished in the end | [122] |
| XXIX. | Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Trenow indulge in a croomo' chat, while Cap'n Trenow gives some sage advice in another quarter | [125] |
| XXX. | The two sisters pierced through the heart | [134] |
| XXXI. | Out of Scylla and into Charybdis | [139] |
| XXXII. | Alrina's troubles are increased by an unexpected discovery | [143] |
| XXXIII. | Alrina visits a kind friend and makes a proposal | [149] |
| XXXIV. | Captain Courland's return and his wife's anxiety | [154] |
| XXXV. | The desperate plunge | [159] |
| XXXVI. | The broken reed | [168] |
| XXXVII. | Josiah's lonely midnight watch in the Conjuror's house | [174] |
| XXXVIII. | The Search | [179] |
| XXXIX. | The unexpected meeting and mysterious communication | [184] |
| XL. | Miss Pendray's singular accident | [191] |
| XLI. | Mysterious sounds are heard issuing out of theearth at midnight. The curious cottage on theheath | [195] |
| XLII. | The poor dumb girl's sudden resolve, and its consequences | [202] |
| XLIII. | The Confession | [206] |
| XLIV. | Mrs. Brown enjoys another croom o' chat withMrs. Trenow, and receives an unexpected visitor | [210] |
| XLV. | An awful catastrophe | [219] |
| XLVI. | The dreaded interview | [224] |
| XLVII. | Mysteries explained | [229] |
| XLVIII. | A brilliant Cornish diamond discovered andplaced in a golden casket | [232] |
| XLIX. | The wedding-bells | [239] |