HENRY NORTHCOTE

Henry Northcote

By
JOHN COLLIS SNAITH
Author of “Broke of Covenden,” “Miss Dorothy
Marvin,” etc.

Boston
HERBERT B. TURNER & CO.
1906

Copyright, 1906
By John Collis Snaith
Entered at Stationers’ Hall
London
Published September, 1906
Second Edition, October 1, 1906
COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I. Shepherd’s Inn, Fleet Street[ 5]
II. Retrospection[ 14]
III. Summoning the Genie[ 23]
IV. Enter Mr. Whitcomb[ 29]
V. An Aristocrat of Aristocrats[ 35]
VI. A Prophecy[ 44]
VII. The Offer of a Brief[ 48]
VIII. Equity a Fruit of the Gods[ 59]
IX. The Brief Withdrawn[ 65]
X. The Ride to Norbiton[ 75]
XI. Mr. Whitcomb’s Foibles[ 91]
XII. The Faith of a Siren[ 104]
XIII. Be Bold, Wary, Fear Not[ 110]
XIV. A Jury of Two[ 116]
XV. Truth’s Champion[ 128]
XVI. A Jury of One[ 140]
XVII. Messrs. Whitcomb and Whitcomb[ 154]
XVIII. To the Prison[ 164]
XIX. The Accused[ 176]
XX. The Interview[ 181]
XXI. The Talisman Which Transcends Experience[ 185]
XXII. Life or Death[ 190]
XXIII. Preparation[ 200]
XXIV. The Trial[ 209]
XXV. Mr. Weekes, K. C.[ 231]
XXVI. The Plea[ 238]
XXVII. The Peroration[ 259]
XXVIII. The Summing-Up[ 268]
XXIX. The Verdict[ 278]
XXX. Sir Joseph Brudenell[ 285]
XXXI. Mediocrity versus Genius[ 297]
XXXII. Mediocrity Aspiring to Virtue[ 306]
XXXIII. The Highway of the Many[ 313]
XXXIV. Magdalene or Delilah[ 320]
XXXV. Delilah[ 341]
XXXVI. The Honorable Secretary[ 351]
XXXVII. Indelible Evidence[ 363]
XXXVIII. Cleansing Fire[ 368]
XXXIX. Without Fear and Without Stain[ 380]