1. [THE SISTERS]
  2. [LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT]
  3. [PASSION]
  4. [THE FATAL DEED]
  5. [LOVE AND FATE]
  6. [A SECRET REVEALED]
  7. [MOTHER- AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW]
  8. [END OF THE SECRET MARRIAGE]
  9. [THE VICTIM]
  10. [THE RIVALS]
  11. [THE MARTYRS OF LOVE]
  12. [HERMAN'S STORY]
  13. [THE FLIGHT OF HERMAN]
  14. [OVER NORA'S GRAVE]
  15. [NORA'S SON]
  16. [THE FORSAKEN WIFE]
  17. [THE COUNTESS AND THE CHILD]
  18. [BERENICE]
  19. [NOBODY'S SON]
  20. [NEWS FROM HERMAN]
  21. [ISHMAEL'S ADVENTURE]
  22. [ISHMAEL GAINS HIS FIRST VERDICT]
  23. [ISHMAEL'S PROGRESS]
  24. [CLAUDIA TO THE RESCUE]
  25. [A TURNING POINT IN ISHMAEL'S LIFE]
  26. [THE FIRE AT BRUDENELL HALL]
  27. [ISHMAEL'S FIRST STEP ON THE LADDER]
  28. [ISHMAEL AND CLAUDIA]
  29. [YOUNG LOVE]
  30. [ISHMAEL AND CLAUDIA]
  31. [ISHMAEL HEARS A SECRET FROM AN ENEMY]
  32. [AT HIS MOTHER'S GRAVE]
  33. [LOVE AND GENIUS]
  34. [UNDER THE OLD ELM TREE]
  35. [THE DREAM AND THE AWAKENING]
  36. [DARKNESS]
  37. [THE NEW HOME]
  38. [ISHMAEL'S STRUGGLES]
  39. [ISHMAEL IN TANGLEWOOD]
  40. [THE LIBRARY]
  41. [CLAUDIA]
  42. [ISHMAEL AT TANGLEWOOD]
  43. [THE HEIRESS]
  44. [CLAUDIA'S PERPLEXITIES]
  45. [THE INTERVIEW]
  46. [NEW LIFE]
  47. [RUSHY SHORE]
  48. [ONWARD]
  49. [STILL ONWARD]
  50. [CLAUDIA'S CITY HOME]
  51. [HEIRESS AND BEAUTY]
  52. [AN EVENING AT THE PRESIDENT'S]
  53. [THE VISCOUNT VINCENT]
  54. [ISHMAEL AT THE BALL]
  55. [A STEP HIGHER]
  56. [TRIAL AND TRIUMPH]
  57. [THE YOUNG CHAMPION]
  58. [HERMAN BRUDENELL]
  59. [FIRST MEETING OF FATHER AND SON]
  60. [HERMAN AND HANNAH]
  61. [ENVY]
  62. [FOILED MALICE]
  63. [THE BRIDE ELECT]
  64. [CLAUDIA'S WOE]
  65. [ISHMAEL'S WOE]
  66. [THE MARRIAGE MORNING]
  67. [BEE'S HANDKERCHIEF]

ISHMAEL

OR,

"IN THE DEPTHS."

CHAPTER I.

THE SISTERS.

"Well, if there be any truth in the old adage, young Herman Brudenell will have a prosperous life; for really this is a lovely day for the middle of April—the sky is just as sunny and the air as warm as if it were June," said Hannah Worth, looking out from the door of her hut upon a scene as beautiful as ever shone beneath the splendid radiance of an early spring morning.

"And what is that old adage you talk of, Hannah?" inquired her younger sister, who stood braiding the locks of her long black hair before the cracked looking-glass that hung above the rickety chest of drawers.