CRUEL AS THE GRAVE

A NOVEL.

BY MRS. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.

AUTHOR OF “SELF-MADE,” “ISHMAEL,” “SELF-RAISED,” “FAIR PLAY,” “VIVIA,”
“MISSING BRIDE,” “A BEAUTIFUL FIEND,” “CHANGED BRIDES,” “RETRIBUTION,”
“HOW HE WON HER,” “A NOBLE LORD,” “BRIDE’S FATE,” “FALLEN PRIDE,”
“LADY OF THE ISLE,” “THE MAIDEN WIDOW,” “ALLWORTH ABBEY,”
“GYPSY’S PROPHECY,” “LOST HEIRESS,” “WIDOW’S SON,” “INDIA,”
“THREE BEAUTIES,” “BRIDE OF LLEWELLYN,” “BRIDAL EVE,”
“DISCARDED DAUGHTER,” “FATAL SECRET,” “TWO SISTERS,”
“CURSE OF CLIFTON,” “TRIED FOR HER LIFE,”
“PHANTOM WEDDING,” “LOVE’S LABOR WON,”
“FORTUNE SEEKER,” “FATAL MARRIAGE,”
“MOTHER-IN-LAW,” “CHRISTMAS GUEST,”
“FAMILY DOOM,” “WIFE’S VICTORY.”

“He to whom
I gave my heart, with all its wealth of love,
Forsakes me for another.”—Medea.
“And we saw Medea burning
At her nature’s-planted stake.”—Browning.

NEW YORK:
THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Nos. 72-76 Walker Street.


Copyright, 1888,

By T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS.