Category: Romance
Mr. and Mrs. Craven Black, summoning the indispensable Mrs. Artress to a private conference, passed some hours in their own room in anxious deliberation upon their future course in regard to Neva. It was necessary to the full success of the daring game they were playing, that...
Mr. and Mrs. Craven Black, summoning the indispensable Mrs. Artress to a private conference, passed some hours in their own room in anxious deliberation upon their future course...
2. CHAPTER II. THE PUZZLE OF NEVA’S WHEREABOUTS.On going up to town with Sir John Freise and Mr. Atkins to engage in the search for Neva Wynde, who had so strangely and mysteriously disappeared, Lord Towyn had left orders wit...
3. did. And about two weeks ago I got a letter from her leddyship, telling“Will you show us that letter?” demanded the lawyer. “We are the guardians of Miss Wynde’s estate, and find it necessary to see the young lady at the earliest possible moment. W...
4. CHAPTER III. AN ADVERTISEMENT QUICKLY ANSWERED.As the hour drew near for the arrival of the expected guest at Sandy Lands, a suppressed excitement pervaded the pert little villa from basement to attic. The servants had all r...
5. CHAPTER IV. LALLY AND MRS. WROAT.The simple and business-like announcement of her name by Mrs. Blight’s young governess to Mrs. Blight’s eccentric guest, produced a sensation as startling as unexpected to Lally...
6. CHAPTER V. NEVA AND HER ENEMIES.Neva Wynde had arrived in London, by the morning express train from Canterbury, in the care of Mr. and Mrs. Craven Black, and from the moment in which she had emerged with them...
7. CHAPTER VI. WHERE NEVA’S TRAVELS ENDED.Neva Wynde sat until a late hour upon the deck, watching the play of the moonlight on the waters, the leaping white crests of the waves, and the white furrow plowed by the _Arro...
8. CHAPTER VII. HOW LALLY TOOK HER DEPARTURE.The composed and defiant announcement by Mrs. Wroat that she had adopted Lally Bird as her daughter and heiress, was like a bombshell flung into the enemy’s camp. Mrs. Blight st...
9. CHAPTER VIII. LALLY’S NEW EXISTENCE.After their triumphant departure from Sandy Lands, and from the presence of the utterly discomfited Mr. and Mrs. Blight, Mrs. Wroat, accompanied by Lally, and attended by the fa...
10. CHAPTER IX. A SURPRISE FOR MISS WYNDE.Miss Neva Wynde, on finding herself confronted by Artress at the very door of Mr. Black’s wild Highland retreat, comprehended in one swift flash that she had been betrayed by he...
11. CHAPTER X. THE INAUGURATION OF HOSTILITIES.The sudden entrance of Neva Wynde into the midst of her exulting enemies struck them dumb. Craven Black sat with hands outstretched, as they had grasped the letter Neva had snat...
12. CHAPTER XI. MRS. BLIGHT ENTERS UPON HER MOURNING.The sudden death of Mrs. Wroat proved a severe shock to poor Lally Bird, who had grown to love the eccentric, but kind-hearted old lady with a daughter’s affection. She hurriedl...
13. CHAPTER XII. A FREAK OF DESTINY.Upon the morning after the burial of Mrs. Wroat, and the utter discomfiture of the fortune-hunting Mr. and Mrs. Blight, Mr. Harris the lawyer called upon Lally. His card, with a...
14. CHAPTER XIII. AN ACTIVE RESISTANCE.Neva Wynde was not one to waste her strength in useless repining, nor to give way to weakness and tears at a time when she needed all her keenness of wit and vigor of body, in t...
15. CHAPTER XIV. NEVA STILL DEFIANT.The sounds of active and hostile pursuit, growing every instant louder as the pursuers neared Neva’s temporary halting-place, startled the young fugitive into renewed flight. Sh...
16. CHAPTER XV. MORE TROUBLE IN THE HIGHLANDS.Upon the afternoon of the same day on which occurred the interview between Octavia Black and young Neva Wynde, as detailed at the conclusion of the preceding chapter, Lally Bird...
17. CHAPTER XVI. THE DESPAIR OF RUFUS AND LALLY.He had felt confident that this angular and sour-visaged woman was Miss Wroat, and that his deserted young wife was in the woman’s employ, under the assumed name of Mrs. Peters....
18. CHAPTER XVII. SIR HAROLD’S RETURN.That night upon which Rufus Black visited Heather Hills, and was sent away again in despair, was a wild night throughout Great Britain and upon its coasts. Ships were wrecked up...
19. CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE RIGHT TRACK AT LAST.The conclusion of the low and cautious knocking upon the office door of Mr. Atkins was lost in a wild burst of the gale which tore along the streets, shrieking and moaning like...
20. CHAPTER XIX. REUNITED.Upon the day after the storm, a high wind still prevailed. No sailing vessel dared put out to sea from Inverness. The sky was dun and gray, with now and then a fitful gleam of s...
21. CHAPTER XX. AN UNTIMELY ARRIVAL.In the early dawn of a gray wild morning, Sir Harold Wynde, Lord Towyn, and Mr. Atkins arrived at Inverness. They proceeded directly to the Railway Hotel, and secured bedrooms a...
22. CHAPTER XXI. TROUBLE AHEAD FOR THE PLOTTERS.The cold weather had set in early in his Highland retreat, and already a foretaste of winter reigned in the Wilderness. Octavia’s cold had settled upon her lungs, and she coughe...
23. CHAPTER XXII. THE FINAL MOVE IMPENDING.The young Lord Towyn came into his sitting-room and the presence of his friends like a sunny south breeze, all hopefulness and gladness. He found Sir Harold walking the floor, h...
24. CHAPTER XXIII. THE END OF THE GAME.The yacht had arrived at the loch at the foot of Wilderness mountain just as the dusk was falling. Craven Black had immediately gone ashore in the mist and gloom, climbed the ru...