CONTENTS.


CHAPTERPAGE
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]