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(Oxford University)
CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. | |
| I. | WHO DID IT? |
| II. | WHAT PRISCILLA PEYTON HAD TO TELL. |
| III. | MALACHITE AND GOLD. |
| IV. | MR. CHARLES PLACKETT IS PUZZLED. |
| V. | A FRUITLESS ERRAND. |
| VI. | COUNSEL TAKEN WITH MR. MEATH. |
| VII. | A STRANGER AT THE ROSE AND CROWN. |
| VIII. | TOGETHER AT LAST. |
| IX. | IN THE DUSK OF EVENING. |
| X. | THE TRUTH AT LAST. |
| XI. | CONVERGING THREADS. |
| XII. | MORE SURPRISES THAN ONE. |
| XIII. | THE LAST MYSTERY SOLVED. |
Never as long as Ella Winter lives will she forget the picture thatimprinted itself on her brain, as instantaneously as though it hadbeen photographed there, at the moment when, startled by Aaron Stone'scry, she stepped out of the window of the sitting-room. On the bordersof the lawn, at the foot of a large holly-bush, the leaves of whichglistened brightly in the morning sun, knelt Aaron, his ruggedfeatures working convulsively, his trembling arms twined round theunconscious form of him who lay there in all the moveless majesty ofdeath. One glance at the white set face, and Ella knew that thewanderer, whose absence had caused so much speculation, had come backat last, but that whatever secrets he might have in his keeping wouldremain secrets still, and would never be whispered in mortal ear. Thepulses of her life stood still as she gazed in her shoc