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CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I.— | [A Bad Business ] | 1 |
| II.— | [The Diamond Bracelet ] | 8 |
| III.— | [Sister and Brother ] | 18 |
| IV.— | [Jeremiah in Tribulation ] | 29 |
| V.— | [Miser Farebrother threatens Jeremiah ] | 46 |
| VI.— | [A Dream of an Angel ] | 71 |
| VII.— | [Better than any Day-Dream ] | 77 |
| VIII.— | [Phœbe in Peril ] | 90 |
| IX.— | [Fred Cornwall to the Rescue ] | 106 |
| X.— | [The Inquest ] | 118 |
| XI.— | [The Trial and Verdict—Extracted from a Popular Daily Paper ] | 144 |
| XII.— | [Dick Garden to the Rescue ] | 170 |
| XIII.— | [The Diamond Bracelet again ] | 186 |
| XIV.— | [Richard Garden makes the Acquaintance of Fanny Lethbridge ] | 203 |
| XV.— | [A Strange Experiment ] | 216 |
| XVI.— | [Jeremiah and his Mother Disappear ] | 224 |
| XVII.— | [Chiefly Concerning Fanny ] | 238 |
| XVIII.— | [A Life and Death Struggle ] | 249 |
| XIX.— | [Off for the Honey-moon ] | 260 |
MISER FAREBROTHER.
CHAPTER I.
A BAD BUSINESS.
At ten o'clock on this morning Captain Ablewhite, unannounced, and without knocking at the door, walked into Jeremiah's room in the hotel at which he had taken up his quarters. Jeremiah was still in bed. Closing the door carefully behind him and turning the key, Captain Ablewhite drew a chair to the side of the bed and sat down.