John Marchmont's Legacy. Volume 2 of 3

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Braddon Mary Elizabeth. John Marchmont's Legacy. Volume 2 of 3

VOLUME II. CHAPTER I. MARY'S LETTER

CHAPTER II. A NEW PROTECTOR

CHAPTER III. PAUL'S SISTER

CHAPTER IV. A STOLEN HONEYMOON

CHAPTER V. SOUNDING THE DEPTHS

CHAPTER VI. RISEN FROM THE GRAVE

CHAPTER VII. FACE TO FACE

CHAPTER VIII. THE PAINTING-ROOM BY THE RIVER

CHAPTER IX. IN THE DARK

CHAPTER X. THE PARAGRAPH IN THE NEWSPAPER

CHAPTER XI. EDWARD ARUNDEL'S DESPAIR

CHAPTER XII. EDWARD'S VISITORS

CHAPTER XIII. ONE MORE SACRIFICE

CHAPTER XIV. THE CHILD'S VOICE IN THE PAVILION BY THE WATER

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Captain Arundel's inquiries at the Kemberling station resulted in an immediate success. A young lady – a young woman, the railway official called her – dressed in black, wearing a crape veil over her face, and carrying a small carpet-bag in her hand, had taken a second-class ticket for London, by the 5.50., a parliamentary train, which stopped at almost every station on the line, and reached Euston Square at half-past twelve.

Edward looked at his watch. It was ten minutes to two o'clock. The express did not stop at Kemberling; but he would be able to catch it at Swampington at a quarter past three. Even then, however, he could scarcely hope to get to Berkshire that night.

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"Our marriage!"

Mary Marchmont echoed her lover's last words, and looked up at him almost with a bewildered air. She had never thought of an early marriage with Edward Arundel as the result of her flight from Lincolnshire. She had a vague notion that she would live in Oakley Street for years, and that in some remote time the soldier would come to claim her.

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