PROSPECT COTTAGE.

November 25th, 1865.

CONTENTS.

Page.
CHAPTER I.
THE FEARFUL WARNING, [25]
CHAPTER II.
HORRIBLE SUSPICIONS, [34]
CHAPTER III.
THE BRIDE OF HEAVEN, [46]
CHAPTER IV.
THE ACCUSATION, [57]
CHAPTER V.
THE ARREST, [66]
CHAPTER VI.
THE UNDERGROUND PASSAGE, [81]
CHAPTER VII.
THE FLIGHT, [90]
CHAPTER VIII.
ANNELLA, [106]
CHAPTER IX.
THE CHAMBER OF DEATH, [116]
CHAPTER X.
THE STUBBORN WITNESS, [130]
CHAPTER XI.
THE YOUNG RUNAWAY, [141]
CHAPTER XII.
THE ANCHORAGE, [152]
CHAPTER XIII.
AN APPARITION, [164]
CHAPTER XIV.
THE FUGITIVE RETAKEN, [178]
CHAPTER XV.
IN PRISON, [195]
CHAPTER XVI.
THE MYSTERIES OF EDENLAWN, [207]
CHAPTER XVII.
THE STRANGE INTERVIEW, [217]
CHAPTER XVIII.
FATHER AND DAUGHTER, [230]
CHAPTER XIX.
“TRUST IN HEAVEN,” [251]
CHAPTER XX.
THE FEARFUL SECRET, [263]
CHAPTER XXI.
THE TRIAL, [279]
CHAPTER XXII.
THE CONVICTION, [291]
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE CONDEMNED, [301]
CHAPTER XXIV.
DESPAIR, [313]
CHAPTER XXV.
THE APPEAL OF DESPAIR, [327]
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE MYSTERIOUS PLAN OF ESCAPE, [340]
CHAPTER XXVII.
A YOUNG HEROINE, [349]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE READING OF THE DEATH-WARRANT, [362]
CHAPTER XXIX.
PREPARATION FOR DEATH, [375]
CHAPTER XXX.
THE BURNING PRISON, [393]
CHAPTER XXXI.
ANNELLA’S RETURN, [398]
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE WRECK AND THE DISCLOSURE, [400]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE DENOUEMENT, [408]

ALLWORTH ABBEY.

CHAPTER I.
THE FEARFUL WARNING.

“She stood once more in the halls of pride,

And the light of her beauty was deified,

And she seemed to the eyes of men a star,

Lovely but lonely—flashing but far.