In Direst Peril

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In Direst Peril is by David Christie Murray. The preface says that it is not often that an honorable man commits a theft and yet leaves no stain upon his honor. A writer in the preface says that before they were married he robbed his wife of forty thousand pounds, breaking into her house to steal it.

A narrator reads lines written by the Conte di Rossano, for more than twenty years a prisoner in the fortress of Itzia. Should the lines reach the hands of the English stranger for whom they are intended, he is besought to convey them to the Contessa di Rossano, daughter of Sir Arthur Rawlings, of Barston Manor, Warwickshire. The baroness asks Captain Fyffe whether she is to understand him to threaten her. A narrator says that if once the statement he had made reached the intelligence of any one Italian patriot, the news would spread like wildfire.

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David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray (1847-1907) was an English novelist and journalist, born at West Bromwich, one of eleven children of William Murray, a printer and stationer in the town.