CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. IN THE RUE ST. GINGOLPHE
CHAPTER XXI. TRUE TO HIS CLOTH
CHAPTER XXVII. IN THE RUE ST. GINGOLPHE AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE MAKING OF CHRISTIAN VELLACOTT
Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, “Young Mistley,” in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley's reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its “powerful situations” and unconventionality of treatment: and, while dwelling at much greater length on its failings, declared, in effect, its faults to be the right faults, and added that, if “Young Mistley” was not in itself a good novel, its author was one who might hereafter certainly write good novels.
“Young Mistley” was followed in quick succession by “The Phantom Future,” “Suspense,” and “Prisoners and Captives.” Some years later, considering th