DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOME.
A Novel,
IN ONE VOLUME.
BY
London:
REMINGTON AND CO.,
5, ARUNDEL STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1877.
[All Rights Reserved.]
DEDICATED,
WITH ALL LOVE AND ESTEEM,
TO MY BROTHER,
GEORGE IGNATIUS PIRKIS.
DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOME.
CHAPTER I.
“£200 REWARD. Disappeared from her home, Amy, only daughter of StephenWarden, Esq., of the High Elms, Harleyford. Age, 17; height, 5ft. Darkhair and eyes, oval face, small nose, mouth, and chin; remarkably smallhands and feet; dressed in dark blue silk walking costume, broadbrimmed felt hat, with light-blue ostrich feather. Jewellery worn—agold butterfly brooch, and butterfly earrings; on the third finger ofleft hand, an antique ruby ring—one large stone, surrounded with eightsmall[2] diamonds, set in a garter with buckle; motto on garter, ‘Sansespoir je meurs.’ The young lady was last seen on the morning of the14th of August, leaving the park lands, and entering the high roadleading to Dunwich. Information to be given to Inspector Smythe,Dunwich Police Station, who will pay the above reward on the younglady’s restoration to her family, or portions of the amount accordingto the value of the information received.”
The above handbill appeared one bright summer’s morning on the walls ofDunwich Police Station, and on all the principal buildings of that busymanufacturing town.
Hard-working men of business found time, in the midst of their buyingand selling, to[3] stop and read, and wonder how it was possible thatany young lady,