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"The Secret of Wyvern Towers" in THE ARGOSY, VOLUME XXVI.
(DECEMBER, 1897), No. 1, pp. 1-78, published by Frank A. Munsey in 1898.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
[I.]VERY STRANGE TIDINGS.
[II.]AFTER THE TELLING OF THE NEWS.
[III.]SIR JOHN CONDUCTS THE INQUIRY.
[IV.]A BACKWARD GLANCE.
[V.]IN THE LEFT WING.
[VI.]RECREANT LOVER.
[VII.]AN AMAZING CONFESSION.
[VIII.]THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
[IX.]WAITING FOR THE VERDICT.
[X.]IN THE LAST RESORT.
[XI.]ONE STEP NEARER.
[XII.]ON THE BRINK.
[XIII.]LAST THINGS.
[XIV.]WITH ALL SPEED.
[XV.]THE SECRET OF WYVERN TOWERS.

THE SECRET OF WYVERN TOWERS.*

[*Copyright, 1897, by T. W. Speight.]

BY T. W. SPEIGHT.

Being an account of the circumstances that shadowed the happiness of Felix Drelincourt--Why two persons proclaimed themselves guilty of a fearful crime, on account of which a vagabond's life was placed in jeopardy--The blotting out of an identity brought about by an unexpected legacy.

(Complete in This Issue.)

[CHAPTER I.]

VERY STRANGE TIDINGS.

On a certain sunny May morning, about forty years ago, the owner of Wyvern Towers stepped into a lovely glade of Barras Wood, which was a portion of his extensive property.