THE SON OF HIS FATHER.
VOL. III.

THE SON OF HIS FATHER

BY
MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF
“IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS,” “AGNES,”
“THE LAIRD OF NORLAW,”
ETC., ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, LIMITED,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1887.
All rights reserved.

CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.

CHAPTER PAGE
[I.][The Great Scheme][1]
[II.][Mr. Sandford’s Secretary][18]
[III.][John on his Trial][34]
[IV.][Defeated and Wronged][51]
[V.][The Culprit][67]
[VI.][A Crisis][80]
[VII.][Mrs. Sandford’s View][96]
[VIII.][The Convict][113]
[IX.][The First Shock][129]
[X.][Mother and Son][147]
[XI.][Susie and her Lovers][165]
[XII.][John’s Letter][183]
[XIII.][The Darkness that could be Felt][203]
[XIV.][The Valley of Humiliation][220]
[XV.][The Father and Children][242]
[XVI.][The Great Scheme][260]
[XVII.][Elly’s Pledge][277]
[XVIII.][A Suspended Solution][295]

THE SON OF HIS FATHER.

CHAPTER I.
THE GREAT SCHEME.

John’s imagination, though it was so full of other matters, was affected more than he could understand by his strange visitor. He felt himself going back a hundred times in the course of the evening to this man, and those curious sophistries which he produced, always with that half smile in his eyes, as if he himself saw the absurdity in them, and as if morals and reason were something outside of himself to be treated with entire impartiality.