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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Two Letters | [7] |
| II. | Dr. Matthewson | [10] |
| III. | The Mock Marriage | [19] |
| IV. | The Forrest House | [27] |
| V. | Beatrice Belknap | [37] |
| VI. | Mother and Son | [44] |
| VII. | Josephine | [56] |
| VIII. | Everard | [61] |
| IX. | The Result | [67] |
| X. | Husband and Wife | [84] |
| XI. | After Two Years | [90] |
| XII. | Commencement | [95] |
| XIII. | The Reception | [100] |
| XIV. | Two Months | [108] |
| XV. | The House of Cards Begins to Fall | [111] |
| XVI. | The House of Cards Goes Down | [122] |
| XVII. | The Next Day | [129] |
| XVIII. | The Shadow of Death | [135] |
| XIX. | The Judge’s Will | [142] |
| XX. | The Heiress | [150] |
| XXI. | A Midnight Ride | [160] |
| XXII. | The New Life at Rothsay | [166] |
| XXIII. | Bee’s Family | [176] |
| XXIV. | In the Summer | [196] |
| XXV. | Mrs. Fleming’s Boarders | [203] |
| XXVI. | Josephine’s Confidence | [212] |
| XXVII. | Events of One Year at the Forrest House | [218] |
| XXVIII. | Something Does Happen | [225] |
| XXIX. | Mrs. J. E. Forrest | [232] |
| XXX. | How Rossie Bore the News | [240] |
| XXXI. | Mrs. Forrest’s Policy | [243] |
| XXXII. | What the People Said and Did | [252] |
| XXXIII. | Everard Faces It | [254] |
| XXXIV. | Everard and Rossie | [259] |
| XXXV. | Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Forrest | [263] |
| XXXVI. | Rosamond’s Decision | [273] |
| XXXVII. | Matters are Adjusted | [277] |
| XXXVIII. | “Waiting and Watching for Me” | [283] |
| XXXIX. | How the Tide Ebbed and Flowed in Rothsay | [288] |
| XL. | Dr. Matthewson’s Game | [292] |
| XLI. | How the Game was Played | [296] |
| XLII. | Alas, Poor Rossie! | [318] |
| XLIII. | The Letters | [323] |
| XLIV. | The New Heir | [327] |
| XLV. | The New Reign at the Forrest House | [336] |
| XLVI. | The Letter from Austria | [343] |
| XLVII. | Agnes Finds the Letter | [348] |
| XLVIII. | La Maison de Sante | [356] |
| XLIX. | The Escape | [364] |
| L. | Going Home | [370] |
| LI. | Breaking the News at the Forrest House | [373] |
| LII. | Breaking the News to Everard | [377] |
| LIII. | The Arrest | [383] |
| LIV. | Telling the Truth to Rossie | [387] |
| LV. | Conclusion | [389] |
THE FORREST HOUSE.
CHAPTER I.
TWO LETTERS.
The first, a small half-sheet, inclosed in a large thick envelope, and addressed in a childish, unformed hand to Mr. James Everard Forrest, Junior, Ellicottville, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with a request in the lower left-hand corner for the postmaster to forward immediately; the second, a dainty little perfumed missive, with a fanciful monogram, directed in a plain round hand to J. Everard Forrest, Esq., Ellicottville, Mass., with the words “in haste” written in the corner. Both letters were in a hurry, and both found their way together to a brown-haired, brown-eyed, brown-faced young man, who sat under the shadow of the big maple tree on the Common in Ellicottville, lazily puffing his cigar and fanning himself with his Panama hat, for the thermometer was ninety in the shade, and the hour 10 A. M. of a sultry July day. At first it was almost too much exertion to break the seals, and for a moment J. Everard Forrest, Jr., toyed with the smaller envelope of the two, and studied the handwriting.