OR, THE BLACK SPECTOR
By William Carleton
CONTENTS
[ PREFACE.]
[ CHAPTER I.] Short and Preliminary
[ CHAPTER II.] A Murderer's Wake and the Arrival of a Stranger
[ CHAPTER III.] Breakfast next morning
[ CHAPTER IV.] Woodward meets a Guide
[ CHAPTER V.] The Bonfire—The Prodigy
[ CHAPTER VI.] Shawn-na-Middogue
[ CHAPTER VII.] A Council of Two
[ CHAPTER VIII.] A Healing of the Breach
[ CHAPTER IX.] Chase of the White Hare
[ CHAPTER X.] True Love Defeated
[ CHAPTER XI.] A Conjurer's Levee
[ CHAPTER XII.] Fortune-telling
[ CHAPTER XIII.] Woodward is Discarded from Mr. Goodwin's Family
[ CHAPTER XIV.] Shawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay
[ CHAPTER XV.] The Banshee.
[ CHAPTER XVI.] A House of Sorrow
[ CHAPTER XVII.] Description of the Original Tory
[ CHAPTER XVIII.] The Toir, or Tory Hunt
[ CHAPTER XIX.] Plans and Negotiations
[ CHAPTER XX.] Woodward's Visit to Ballyspellan
[ CHAPTER XXI.] The Dinner at Ballyspellan
[ CHAPTER XXII.] History of the Black Spectre
[ CHAPTER XXIII.] Greatrakes at Work—Denouement
List of Illustrations
[ Frontispiece ]
[ Titlepage ]
[ Page 631— The Gaze Was Long and Combative ]
[ Page 652— I Will Follow It Until Morning ]
[ Page 697— One Long, Dark, Inexplicable Gaze ]
[ Page 736— Shawn-na-middogue, Your Mother's Victim ]
[ Page 774— Kiss You for the Sake of Our Early Love ]