CONTENTS.
[PROLOGUE.]
[CHAPTER I. A QUEER ADVENTURE]
[CHAPTER II. A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT]
[PART I.]
[CHAPTER I. MRS. DACRE DARROW]
[CHAPTER II. A RED RAG TO A BULL]
[CHAPTER III. POVERTY HALL]
[CHAPTER IV. MR. BARTON'S VISITOR]
[CHAPTER V. BEHIND THE SCENES]
[CHAPTER VI. MRS. DARROW'S BOMBSHELL]
[CHAPTER VII. IN THE WOODS]
[CHAPTER VIII. SHORTY]
[CHAPTER IX. THE SHADOW]
[CHAPTER X. THE SQUIRE'S SECRET]
[CHAPTER XI. UNMASKED]
[CHAPTER XII. MIRIAM KEEPS AN APPOINTMENT]
[CHAPTER XIII. MRS. DARROW BECOMES REFRACTORY]
[CHAPTER XIV. ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT]
[CHAPTER XV. A NINE DAYS' WONDER]
[CHAPTER XVI. A LITTLE FEMININE DIPLOMACY]
[CHAPTER XVII. A ROMAN FATHER]
[CHAPTER XVIII. THE REWARD OF MIRIAM]
[PART II.]
[CHAPTER I. 5A, ROSARY MANSIONS]
[CHAPTER II. JABEZ REDIVIVUS]
[CHAPTER III. MRS. PARSLEY'S PROTÉGÉ]
[CHAPTER IV. DICKY'S DISCOVERY]
[CHAPTER V. JUST IN TIME]
[CHAPTER VI. SOME MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS AND A CONFESSION]
[CHAPTER VII. MRS. DARROW SYMPATHISES]
[CHAPTER VIII. MRS. PARSLEY SEES A GHOST]
[CHAPTER IX. MORE TROUBLE]
[CHAPTER X. THE MAJOR'S POINT OF VIEW]
[CHAPTER XI. IN THE DEPTHS]
[CHAPTER XII. JABEZ SEEKS AN OLD FRIEND]
[CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF GERALD ARKEL]
[CHAPTER XIV. A QUEER STORY QUEERLY TOLD]
[EPILOGUE.]
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PROLOGUE.
CHAPTER I.
A QUEER ADVENTURE.
It was midnight—midnight on Waterloo Bridge. A plague was over the city—the concentrated vomit of a million and more chimneys wrapped all in an Egyptian darkness.
The miracle of Moses could not have produced a deeper gloom—an atmosphere more impenetrable. It clung to the skin, it even pressed against the eyeballs. It might in truth have been that very outer darkness which we are taught is reserved for those amongst us who are sinners.