ELEANOR’S VICTORY

BY THE AUTHOR OF
“LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “AURORA FLOYD”
ETC. ETC.

Stereotyped Edition

LONDON
JOHN AND ROBERT MAXWELL
4, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET
1878

[All rights reserved.]

CONTENTS.

CHAP.PAGE
I.Going home[5]
II.The entresol in the Rue de l’Archevêque[12]
III.The story of the past[21]
IV.Upon the threshold of a great sorrow[32]
V.Waiting[44]
VI.The black building by the river[53]
VII.Suspense[59]
VIII.Good Samaritans[66]
IX.Looking to the future[78]
X.Hortensia Bannister holds out a helping hand[85]
XI.Richard Thornton’s promise[95]
XII.Gilbert Monckton[104]
XIII.Hazlewood[109]
XIV.The prodigal’s return[118]
XV.Launcelot[124]
XVI.The lawyer’s suspicion[131]
XVII.The shadow on Gilbert Monckton’s life[135]
XVIII.Unforgotten[138]
XIX.Like the memory of a dream[146]
XX.Recognition[154]
XXI.On the track[159]
XXII.In the shipbroker’s office[165]
XXIII.Resolved[173]
XXIV.The one chance[176]
XXV.Accepted[186]
XXVI.An insidious demon[193]
XXVII.Slow fires[198]
XXVIII.By the sundial[208]
XXIX.Keeping watch[212]
XXX.An old man’s fancy[217]
XXXI.A powerful ally[222]
XXXII.The testimony of the sketch-book[228]
XXXIII.Maurice de Crespigny’s will[234]
XXXIV.Richard’s discovery[240]
XXXV.What happened at Windsor[243]
XXXVI.Another recognition[248]
XXXVII.Launcelot’s troubles[254]
XXXVIII.Mr. Monckton brings gloomy tidings from Woodlands[261]
XXXIX.Launcelot’s counsellor[265]
XL.Resolved[270]
XLI.A terrible surprise[277]
XLII.In the presence of the dead[284]
XLIII.A brief triumph[289]
XLIV.Lost[296]
XLV.At sea[301]
XLVI.Laura’s troubles[308]
XLVII.Getting over it[314]
XLVIII.The reading of the will[320]
XLIX.Deserted[326]
L.Gilbert’s letter[331]
LI.Mrs. Major Lennard[339]
LII.Going back to Paris[345]
LIII.Margaret Lennard’s delinquencies[351]
LIV.Very lonely[363]
LV.Victor Bourdon goes over to the enemy[367]
LVI.The horrors of delirium tremens[375]
LVII.Maurice de Crespigny’s bequest[385]
LVIII.The day of reckoning[389]
LIX.The last[398]

ELEANOR’S VICTORY.