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HIDDEN HAND

By MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH

Author of THE CURSE OF CLIFTON

 

 

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. The Nocturnal Visit
CHAPTER II. The Masks
CHAPTER III. The Quest
CHAPTER IV. Capitola
CHAPTER V. The Discovery
CHAPTER VI. A Short, Sad Story
CHAPTER VII. Metamorphosis of the Newsboy
CHAPTER VIII. Herbert Greyson
CHAPTER IX. Marah Rocke
CHAPTER X. The Room of the Trap-Door
CHAPTER XI. A Mystery and a Storm at Hurricane Hall
CHAPTER XII. Marah's Dream
CHAPTER XIII. Marah's Memories
CHAPTER XIV. The Wasting Heart
CHAPTER XV. Cap's Country Capers
CHAPTER XVI. Cap's Fearful Adventure
CHAPTER XVII. Another Storm at Hurricane Hall
CHAPTER XVIII. The Doctor's Daughter
CHAPTER XIX. The Resigned Soul
CHAPTER XX. The Outlaw's Rendezvous
CHAPTER XXI. Gabriel LeNoir
CHAPTER XXII. Gabriel LeNoir
CHAPTER XXIII. The Smuggler and Capitola
CHAPTER XXIV. Capitola's Mother
CHAPTER XXV. Cap's Tricks and Perils
CHAPTER XXVI. The Peril and the Pluck of Cap
CHAPTER XXVII. Seeking his Fortune
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Panic in the Outlaw's Den
CHAPTER XXIX. The Victory Over Death
CHAPTER XXX. The Orphan


THE HIDDEN HAND.


CHAPTER I.

THE NOCTURNAL VISIT.

* * * Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me when every sound appals me?
* * * I hear a knocking
In the south entry! Hark!—More knocking!
Shakespeare.

Hurricane Hall is a large old family mansion, built of dark-redsandstone, in one of the loneliest and wildest of the mountain regionsof Virginia.

The estate is surrounded on three sides by a range of steep, gray rocks,spiked with clumps of dark evergreens, and called, from its horseshoeform, the Devil's H

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