Category: Novels
At ten o'clock on this morning Captain Ablewhite, unannounced, and without knocking at the door, walked into Jeremiah's room in the hotel at which he had taken up his quarters. Jeremiah was still in bed. Closing the door carefully behind him and turning the key, Captain Ablewh...
"The trial of Phoebe Farebrother for the murder of her father, commonly known as Miser Farebrother, terminated last evening, and will be long remembered as one of the most remar...
5. CHAPTER V.He usually travelled third-class to Beddington, but on this occasion he took a first-class ticket. To this piece of extravagance he was impelled by two reasons. He wished to be...
10. CHAPTER X."The coroner, addressing the jury, said that they were about to investigate what there was little reason to doubt was a foul murder. Certain witnesses were present whose evidenc...
12. CHAPTER XII.Aunt and Uncle Leth and their children sat in their once happy home in Camden Town gazing at each other in mute despair. For them the tragedy of life was complete and overwhelmi...
4. CHAPTER IV.Jeremiah Pamflett, owing the book-maker with whom he made his bets at Doncaster over three thousand pounds, very soon made the disagreeable discovery that Captain Ablewhite had...
13. CHAPTER XIII."Mr. Linton," continued Kiss, "followed the woman who was so anxious to enter into relations--evidently not new ones--with that abominable scoundrel Jeremiah Pamflett, and who h...
16. CHAPTER XVI.That was the busiest of days. There was so much for Richard Garden to do that the wonder was how the young fellow got through it. There were reports from Kiss and Linton to rece...
8. CHAPTER VIII.After this breaking out of the sun in the dear home in Camden Town, with respect to the money trouble, Aunt Leth's heart, as has been stated, fainted within her when Mr. Beemins...
7. CHAPTER VII."Ah!" And the speaker glanced at his companion. "I'm sorry to hear it--very, very sorry." His voice was soothing and sympathizing, and 'Melia Jane, who had not been too favourab...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Punctually at nine o'clock in the morning Tom Barley made his appearance in Fred Cornwall's rooms. Garden, having assumed the command of what nearly every one but himself would...
9. CHAPTER IX.So overwhelming was Aunt Leth's despair after Mr. Beeminster's departure that she almost lost her senses. She could not think coherently, but she had a vague consciousness that...
3. CHAPTER III.For a fortnight after Phoebe reached the haven of love in Camden Town she lay between life and death. It was only when she felt herself out of danger that her strength gave way....
18. CHAPTER XVIII.It was an hour past midnight, and the fog had deepened so that a man could scarcely see a yard before him. On the North Finchley Road it lay particularly thick, and the sky and...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Of all Phoebe's friends and well-wishers there was only one who did not openly share in the joy occasioned by her release. Congratulations poured in from all sides, even from st...
2. CHAPTER II.This was to be a night of surprising adventure to Jeremiah. He was punctual to time. As the church clock struck the hour of nine he arrived at the Langham Hotel, and in accordan...
15. CHAPTER XV.At an hour past midnight Fred Cornwall called for Aunt Leth in a closed carriage, drawn by a pair of smart horses. Aunt Leth, warmly enveloped in a cloak which entirely covered...
1. CHAPTER I.At ten o'clock on this morning Captain Ablewhite, unannounced, and without knocking at the door, walked into Jeremiah's room in the hotel at which he had taken up his quarters....
6. CHAPTER VI."I fear not, dear child," said Aunt Leth, in a voice of quiet despair. "Your uncle and I have thought of every possible way in which our dear home might be saved, but thinking a...
19. CHAPTER XIX.In the autumn of the following year a quiet wedding-party assembled after church in Aunt Leth's house. To be exact, it was a double wedding-party--Phoebe and Fred, Fanny and Dic...