Helen Vardon’s Confession

BY
R. AUSTIN FREEMAN
AUTHOR OF
“THE EYE OF OSIRIS,”
“THE RED THUMB MARK,”
ETC.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LIMITED LONDON

PROLOGUE

BOOK I. TRAGEDY

I. THE CRACK OF DOOM

II. ATRA CURA

III. THE COVENANT

IV. THE ELEVENTH HOUR

V. ON THE BRINK

VI. A MEETING AND A PARTING

VII. THE TERMS OF RELEASE

VIII. “WHOM GOD HATH JOINED——”

IX. TESTIMONY AND COUNSEL

X. THE TURNING OF THE PAGE

BOOK II. ROMANCE

XI. A HARBOUR OF REFUGE

XII. THE HIDDEN HAND

XIII. A CRYSTAL-GAZER AND OTHER MATTERS

XIV. JASPER DAVENANT

XV. THE MAGIC PENDULUM

XVI. THE SWEATED ARTIST

XVII. THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE TITMOUSE

XVIII. AMONG THE BREAKERS

XIX. ILLUSIONS AND DISILLUSIONS

XX. CLOUD AND SUNSHINE

XXI. A DREADFUL INHERITANCE

XXII. THE CATASTROPHE

BOOK III. CRIME

XXIII. THE DEAD HAND

XXIV. THE GATHERING CLOUDS

XXV. SUSPENSE: AND A DISCOVERY

XXVI. THE ADJOURNED INQUIRY

XXVII. THE INDICTMENT

XXVIII. THE VERDICT

EPILOGUE

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