LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1869.

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LONDON:
SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.

In justice to himself the author thinks it requisite to state that the entire plan of this story was sketched out, and several of the chapters written, before the first lines of Mr. Wilkie Collins's "Moonstone" had been given to the Public.

He has further denied himself the pleasure of reading "The Moonstone" till after the completion of his own story, so as to preclude any possible charge of having derived the outline of his plot from the work of another writer.

London, February, 1869.

CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAP.
[I.]MY ARRIVAL AT DUPLEY WALLS.
[II.]THE MISTRESS OF DUPLEY WALLS.
[III.]A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY.
[IV.]SCARSDALE WEIR.
[V.]AT ROSE COTTAGE.
[VI.]THE GROWTH OF A MYSTERY.
[VII.]EXIT JANET HOLME.
[VIII.]BY THE SCOTCH EXPRESS.
[IX.]AT THE "GOLDEN GRIFFIN."
[X.]THE STOLEN MANUSCRIPT.
[XI.]BON REPOS.
[XII.]THE AMSTERDAM EDITION OF 1698.
[XIII.]M. PLATZOFF'S SECRET--CAPTAIN DUCIE'STRANSLATION OF M. PAUL PLATZOFF'S MS.
[XIV.]DRASHKIL-SMOKING.
[XV.]THE DIAMOND.
[XVI.]JANET'S RETURN.
[XVII.]DUPLEY WALLS AFTER SEVEN YEARS.

UNDER LOCK AND KEY.

[CHAPTER I.]

MY ARRIVAL AT DUPLEY WALLS.