Thirty-third Thousand.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1896.
(All rights reserved.)


LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.


CONTENTS.


PAGE
I.Lost in the Post[1]
II.A Life of Trouble[19]
III.Hester Reed’s Pills[36]
IV.Abel Crew[56]
V.Robert Ashton’s Wedding-Day[75]
VI.Hardly worth Telling[92]
VII.Charles van Rheyn[109]
VIII.Mrs. Todhetley’s Earrings[133]
IX.A Tale of Sin[153]
X.A Day of Pleasure[231]
XI.The Final Ending to it[250]
XII.Margaret Rymer[272]
XIII.The Other Earring[289]
XIV.Anne[310]
XV.The Key of the Church[367]
XVI.The Syllabub Feast[387]
XVII.Seen in the Moonlight[408]
XVIII.Rose Lodge[427]
XIX.Lee, the Letter Man[446]