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A TERRIBLE SECRET.
A Novel.
BY
MAY AGNES FLEMING,
To
CHRISTIAN REID,
AUTHOR OF
"VALERIE AYLMER," ETC.,
AS A
TOKEN OF ADMIRATION AND ESTEEM,
THIS
STORY IS DEDICATED.
MAY AGNES FLEMING.
BROOKLYN,
_September_, 1874.
CONTENTS.
I.--Bride and Bridegroom Elect
II.--Wife and Heir
III.--How Lady Catheron came Home
IV.--"I'll not Believe but Desdemona's Honest"
V.--In the Twilight
VI.--In the Moonlight
VII.--In the Nursery
VIII.--In the Darkness
IX.--From the "Chesholm Courier"
X.--From the "Chesholm Courier"--Continued
XI.--"Ring out your Bells! Let Mourning Shows be Spread!"
XII.--The first Ending of the Tragedy
PART II.
I.--Miss Darrell
II.--A Night in the Snow
III.--Trixy's Party
IV.--"Under the Gaslight"
V.--Old Copies of the "Courier"
VI.--One Moonlight Night
VII.--Short and Sentimental
VIII.--In Two Boats
IX.--Alas for Trix
X.--How Trix took it
XI.--How Lady Helena took it
XII.--On St. Partridge Day
XIII.--How Charley took it
XIV.--To-morrow
XV.--Lady Helena's Ball
XVI.--"O My Cousin Shallow-hearted!"
XVII.--"Forever and Ever"
XVIII.--The Summons
XIX.--At Poplar Lodge
XX.--How the Wedding-day Began
XXI.--How the Wedding-day Ended
XXII.--The Day After
XXIII.--The Second Ending of the Tragedy
PART III.
I.--At Madame Mirebeau's, Oxford Street
II.--Edith
III.--…