TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.[A NEW LIFE.]
CHAPTER II.[THE BIRTHMARK.]
CHAPTER III.[ON THE VERANDA.]
CHAPTER IV.[A MAID OF MYSTERY.]
CHAPTER V.[THE SURPRISE.]
CHAPTER VI.[THE FACE IN THE WATCH.]
CHAPTER VII.[A BLACK SAMSON.]
CHAPTER VIII.[THE SUBSTITUTES.]
CHAPTER IX.[SPARKFAIR'S HIT.]
CHAPTER X.[A MOONLIGHT MEETING.]
CHAPTER XI.[THE TRUTH.]
CHAPTER XII.[A HEART LAID BARE.]
CHAPTER XIII.[THE PLEDGE OF FAITH.]
CHAPTER XIV.[THE SIGNAL FOR SILENCE.]
CHAPTER XV.[KIDNAPED!]
CHAPTER XVI.[FOR THE SAKE OF OLD DAYS.]
CHAPTER XVII.[A CALL TO THE "FLOCK."]
CHAPTER XVIII.[A MAN OF THE PEOPLE.]
CHAPTER XIX.[AN INTRUDER.]
CHAPTER XX.[OLD FRIENDS EN ROUTE.]
CHAPTER XXI.[AT MERRY HOME.]
CHAPTER XXII.[ANOTHER PILGRIM.]
CHAPTER XXIII.[IN THE NOOK.]
CHAPTER XXIV.[ON THE CLIFF.]
CHAPTER XXV.[A STARTLING DISCOVERY.]
CHAPTER XXVI.[A LIVELY GAME.]
CHAPTER XXVII.[MURILLO'S FAREWELL.]
CHAPTER XXVIII.[A COMPACT.]
CHAPTER XXIX.[THE PROOF.]
CHAPTER XXX.[THE EDUCATED HORSE.]
CHAPTER XXXI.[A CHALLENGE.]
CHAPTER XXXII.[A HARD PROPOSITION.]
CHAPTER XXXIII.[THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER.]
CHAPTER XXXIV.[A TROUBLED MIND.]
CHAPTER XXXV.[REMORSE.]
CHAPTER XXXVI.[A FRIEND WORTH HAVING.]
CHAPTER XXXVII.[A PROTEST.]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.[A CONFESSION.]
CHAPTER XXXIX.[JOLTS FOR BULLIES.]
CHAPTER XL.[A DETERMINED FRONT.]
CHAPTER XLI.[THE HOUR AND THE MAN.]

FRANK MERRIWELL'S SON.

CHAPTER I.

A NEW LIFE.

Lizette, the French nurse, came softly and lightly down the stairs and found Frank Merriwell pacing the library floor, while Bart Hodge and Elsie Bellwood talked to him soothingly.

"Madame will see you now, saire," said the nurse, with a little curtsy. "Ze doctaire he is gone now some time. Madame she is comforterbill. She say she see you—alone."