My dear Sprigge,

Since it was you who first instructed me in the existence of the brain disease which forms the motif of this story, and furnished me with such illustrations of its working as enabled me to write the story, I am in honour bound to make the most public acknowledgment possible of this fact.

I therefore beg to inscribe your name on the title page of this volume in grateful recognition of an obligation which is not by any means discharged by such recognition. I am also moved to do so in remembrance of another kind of work in which I have been so fortunate as to have your invaluable collaboration.

Very sincerely yours,
WALTER BESANT.
United University Club, S.W.
September 12, 1892.

CONTENTS

[PROLOGUE: WHO IS EDMUND GRAY?]
I.[UP THE RIVER]
II.[IN THE OFFICE]
III.[THE SELECT CIRCLE]
IV.[A REBELLIOUS CHILD]
V.[SOMETHING HAPPENS]
VI.[SOMETHING MORE HAPPENS]
VII.[SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS]
VIII.[IN HONOUR OF THE EVENT]
IX.[AT THE GATES OF PARADISE]
X.[A MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY]
XI.[A MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY]
XII.[THE FIRST FIND]
XIII.[THINGS MORE REMARKABLE]
XIV.[CHECKLEY'S CASE]
XV.[WHO IS EDMUND GRAY?]
XVI.[THE VOICE OF DUTY]
XVII.[WAS HE IN RAGS?]
XVIII.[THE PRODIGAL AT HOME]
XIX.[THE WHISPER OF CALUMNY]
XX.[HE COMES FROM EDMUND GRAY]
XXI.[I AM EDMUND GRAY]
XXII.[MASTER AND DISCIPLE]
XXIII.[THE HALL OF THE NEW FAITH]
XXIV.[CAN HE REMEMBER?]
XXV.[WILL HE REMEMBER?]
XXVI.[THE LESSON OF THE STREET]
XXVII.['I KNOW THE MAN']
XXVIII.[ATHELSTAN'S DISCOVERY]
XXIX.[CHECKLEY SEES A GHOST]
XXX.[THE DAY AFTER THE GHOST]
XXXI.[THE THREE ACCOMPLICES]
XXXII.[ELSIE AND HER MOTHER]
XXXIII.[PLENARY CONFESSION]
XXXIV.[LE CONSEIL DE FAMILLE]
XXXV.[THE LAST]

PROLOGUE