A Mother’s Care.—The Pursuit.—A Successful Ruse.—The Second Visit.
The Staircase.—The Old Attic.—A Friend in Need.—Fair Play.—Gray’s Despair.
The Escape over the Houses.—Many Perils.—Gray’s Great Sufferings.—The Guide Rope.
The Robbers.—The Drugged Wine.—Visions of the Mind Diseased.
Ada’s Escape.—The Magistrate.—Ada’s Ignorance of London Localities.—Learmont’s Fright.
An Anecdote.—Sir Francis Hartleton’s House at Westminster.—The Reception.—Ada’s Conduct and Feelings.
Jacob Gray and His Kind Friends.—The Plunder.—Thieves’ Morality.—The Drive to Hampstead.
Ada at Sir Francis Hartleton’s.—The Philosophy of a Young Heart.—A Confession.—The Pleasure of Sympathy.
Albert Seyton’s Destitution.—A Lone and Wearied Spirit.—The Application to Learmont, and the Meeting with Sir Francis Hartleton.
Jacob Grey in the Hampstead Fields.—The Placard.—The Reward.
Gray’s Proceedings.—A Narrow Escape.—The Night Visit to Learmont.
The Chequers.—Britton’s Corner.—An Alarm.—The Mysterious Stranger.—A Quarrel.—A Fight and a Little Anatomy.
An Interview with a Secretary of State.—Sir Francis Hartleton’s Difficulties.
Gray’s Visit to Learmont.—The Disappointment.—A Week of Terror.—The Street Newsvender.
The Disappointment.—The Last Resource.—A Strange Meeting.—The Confession.
Britton and Learmont.—Mind and Matter Produce Similar Results.—Learmont’s Weakness and Fears.—The Chair.
A Walk and a Meeting.—The Vision at the Open Casement.—Learmont’s Perturbation.
The Jew and the Necklace.—Gray’s Troubles and Surmises.—An Adventure.
The Pursuit.—A Successful Ruse.—The Long Night.—Gray’s Terror.
The Return of Learmont.—The Interview.—Doubts and Fears.
The Troublesome Shoe-maker.—Gray’s Agony and Danger.—The Flight.
Ada’s Home.—A Happy Scene.—The Serenity of Goodness.
Britton in His Glory Again.—The Song and the Legal Functionary.—The Surprise.
The Old Associates.—Gray’s Fears.—The Old Attic at the Chequers.
The Smith’s Plot Against Gray.—An Accommodating Friend.
Gray on the House Tops.—Specimens of the Rising Generation.—The Old Attic.
The Interview between Albert and Learmont.—The Promise, and Albert’s Relation.
The Unfortunate Confidence of Albert Seyton.—Learmont’s Promises and Treachery.
Learmont’s Improved Prospects.—The Park.—Ada’s Recollections.—The Meeting.