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CONTENTS OF VOL. III. | |
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | ELEANOR'S RESOLVE. |
| II. | POD'S STRATAGEM. |
| III. | VAN DUREN'S DREAM. |
| IV. | PRINGLE'S DISCOVERY. |
| V. | A FOUND LETTER. |
| VI. | VAN DUREN IN WALES. |
| VII. | THE MESSAGE TO STAMMARS. |
| VIII. | WINGED WORDS. |
| IX. | VAN DUREN'S FLIGHT. |
| X. | TOLD AT LAST. |
| XI. | "AND YOU SHALL STILL BE LADY CLARE." |
| XII. | THE STRONG-ROOM. |
| XIII. | CONCLUSION. |
"I'm in no particular hurry, doctor, to get back to London," SirThomas Dudgeon had quietly hinted to his medical man. "I daresay theHouse can get on without me quite as well as with me, so you needn'thurry yourself to say I'm fit for harness again till you feel quitesure in your own mind that I am so."
Dr. Welstead was not slow to take the hint, and he kept on calling atStammars two or three times a week, and sending one innocuous draughtafter another, which draughts Sir Thomas conscientiously poured intothe ash-pan when his wife was not looking, till the baronet's holidayhad extended itself to the beginning of May. But by this time SirThomas looked so well and rosy, and was in possession of such a heartyappetite, that a vague suspicion that she was being duped began tohaunt her ladyship's mind. She said nothing to her husband, but madeher preparations in silence. Then, one morning at the breakfast-table,the shell exploded.
"To-day is Wednesday, dear," she said, "and I