A MERE CHANCE.

A NOVEL.

BY

ADA CAMBRIDGE,

AUTHOR OF "IN TWO YEARS TIME," &c.

IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II.

LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,

Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1882. Right of Translation Reserved.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Another Rash Promise 1

II. The Beginning of Troubles 23

III. "Where there was never Need of Vows." 40

IV. After the Ball 66

V. Rachel's First Visit in Melbourne 92

VI. In Mrs. Hardy's Store-room 111

VII. "He Has Come Back" 131

VIII. "The Light that never was on Sea or Land" 151

IX. Eleven p.m. 169

X. Mrs. Reade's Advice 191

XI. Until Christmas 228

XII. "The Ground-Whirl of the Perished Leaves of Hope" 248

XIII. Rachel on the Philosophy of Marriage 268

A MERE CHANCE.