Category: Novels
|My name is Leonard Benary--rather a foreign-sounding name, though I am a pure-blooded Englishman. I reside at No. 63, Riverview Road, in the American city of Adironda, though I was born in Devonshire. And I am a physician and surgeon, though retired from active practice. My a...
“Yes, from the Penitentiary across the river. You see, though we have never met until to-night, we have been neighbours, living within sight each of the other's residence, for s...
12. CHAPTER XII.--THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA.|Fairchild became a frequent visitor at our house, and an ever-welcome one. His good looks, his good sense, his droll humour, his honesty, his high spirits, made him an extremel...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--NATURE BEGINS REPRISALS.|OF course, we watched the newspapers for an announcement of the _Touraine's_ arrival. A fast steamer, ordinarily accomplishing the passage within seven days, she ought to have...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--ALTER EGO.|Though by no means so stormy as that described by Fairchild, our voyage was an unconscionably long one. To say nothing of fogs and head winds, an accident befell our machinery,...
3. CHAPTER III.--WHENCE SHE CAME.She had said that she was young. I was not surprised to see that she was beautiful as well. I do not know that I can explain just what had prepared me for this discovery. Perhap...
2. CHAPTER II.--AT THE RIVER SIDE.|Yet to keep an eye upon her was more easily said than done. At the bottom of the terrace it was impenetrably dark. Not a star shone from the clouded sky. The points of light al...
11. CHAPTER XI.--REASSURANCE.|Throughout the meal that followed, I carefully observed Fairchild's bearing toward my niece; and great was my satisfaction to see in it only and exactly what under the circumst...
9. CHAPTER IX.--JOSEPHINE WRITES.|A beautiful fire was blazing in the grate. The transition from the cold and uproar of the street, to the snug quiet and warmth of this cosy book-lined room, was an agreeable on...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE.|He was a tall and athletic-looking man, perhaps thirty years old, with a ruddy, good-humoured face, an honest pair of blue eyes, and a curling yellow beard. He wore a sealskin...
6. CHAPTER VI.--MIRIAM BENARY.|I watched her carefully as she recovered from the effects of the ether. An uncommonly small quantity of that drug had sufficed to deprive her of her senses; and now her recover...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE DOCTOR ACTS.“She is eager to have you operate. She asked me where you would do so. I told her I supposed there, in her bed. Then she said she would not waste time by getting up, and wished...
7. CHAPTER VII.--WITHIN AN ACE.|On that day certain imperative business demanded my presence in the lawyer's quarter of the town. I had been summoned, in short, to appear as a witness in a litigation that was...
10. CHAPTER X.--JOSEPHINE EXPLAINS.“Mr. Fairchild is in the guest-chamber, where he is to sleep. Miriam is in her room. I could not come to you so long as they were together. It would not do to leave them alone....
1. CHAPTER I.--THE FIRST NIGHT.|My name is Leonard Benary--rather a foreign-sounding name, though I am a pure-blooded Englishman. I reside at No. 63, Riverview Road, in the American city of Adironda, though I...