Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
MY DEAREST LOVE--How, did you like my little messenger, Fanny? Is she not steady, and bright, and clever? When she woke this morning I had an earnest conversation with her, and as far as was necessary I told her my plans and that I wanted her faithful assistance. She cried for...
Thursday, _3rd July_.--No news of my son. I see by this morning's papers that another vessel has arrived at Liverpool from New York. It left four days after the "Germanic," so t...
13. CHAPTER XLII.Tuesday, _1st July_.--I am once more in London, after a long absence and much wandering in America, where I sought in vain for my dear son, Frederick, the son I wronged and thru...
9. CHAPTER XXXVIII.An hour before midnight of the day on which No. 119 Great Porter Square was let to a new tenant, a man dressed in plain clothes walked leisurely round the Square in a quiet and...
17. CHAPTER XLVI.We have much pleasure (said the _Evening Moon_, two days after the fire) in presenting our readers with the last act of a drama which, in plot, incident, and extraordinary devel...
11. CHAPTER XL.Richard Manx, as a man of gallantry, was generally ready for any adventure with the fair sex which offered itself, but on the present occasion, despite his disposition to be ami...
7. CHAPTER XXXVI.A cup of hot tea and some bread and butter soon made little Fanny lively again, and when she was quite recovered I questioned her upon many little points, so as to make sure tha...
8. CHAPTER XXXVII.To the closed shutters of No. 119 Great Porter Square was attached a board, on which were painted the words, "This House to Let on reasonable terms, or the Lease to be sold. App...
5. CHAPTER XXXIV.MY DEAR LOVE,--My note written last night was short, because I had scarcely anything to say, and I postponed what I had to tell until to-night. Mrs. Holdfast did not detain Fann...
12. CHAPTER XLI.Frederick Holdfast slept until late in the morning. Awaking, he looked at his watch, which marked the hour of eleven. He did not begrudge the time spent in sleep. It had refresh...
2. CHAPTER XXXI.MY DEAREST LOVE--How, did you like my little messenger, Fanny? Is she not steady, and bright, and clever? When she woke this morning I had an earnest conversation with her, and...
6. CHAPTER XXXV.MY DARLING--What has occurred to-day must be related with calmness, although my mind is in a whirl of excitement. The presentiment I felt last night that we were on the threshol...
15. CHAPTER XLIV.In breathless silence, oblivious for the time of every surrounding circumstance, Frederick Holdfast perused the record of his father's last hours. What followed, after his fathe...
3. CHAPTER XXXII.MY DEAR LOVE,--Again I beg of you, in reply to your expressions of anxiety in the letter Fanny brought to me this morning, not to give yourself unnecessary anxiety about me. You...
4. CHAPTER XXXIII."I've never spoken to you," said Fanny, "but I remember you well. You used to go to the theatre in the country, where Nelly was engaged. That's the reason she sent me to you."
16. CHAPTER XLV.When Frederick Holdfast turned the key in the lock, Pelham raised his head, and looked in alarm at Mrs. Holdfast. She, also, hearing the sound, slightly raised herself from the...
10. CHAPTER XXXIX.The following night--the night which Mr. Pelham had sworn should be the last of his search, and the last upon which he would continue his disguise as Richard Manx--this accompli...
1. VOLUME III.