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Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.

ALDYTH'S INHERITANCE

BY

EGLANTON THORNE

AUTHOR OF "THE OLD WORCESTER JUG," "IDA NICOLARI," "THE MANSE OF GLEN CLUNIE," "THE TWO CROWNS," ETC.

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD AND 164 PICCADILLY

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. THE BLAND FAMILY

II. A NOVEL INTRODUCTION

III. GUY LORRAINE

IV. A LECTURE ON POETRY

V. A DAY AT WYNDHAM HALL

VI. DISAPPOINTMENT

VII. A MISCHIEF-MAKER

VIII. GOSSIP AND MISCONCEPTION

IX. MR. STEPHEN LORRAINE COMES TO AN UNDERSTANDING WITH HIS HEIR

X. HILDA BLAND'S PARTY

XI. CHRISTMAS AT WYNDHAM

XII. MR. LORRAINE SENDS FOR HIS SOLICITOR

XIII. SORROW AND JOY

XIV. A LONG-DEFERRED HOPE IS REALIZED

XV. ALDYTH WAKES FROM A DREAM

XVI. CONTRASTS

XVII. HILDA IS HAPPY

XVIII. A SUMMONS TO WYNDHAM

XIX. THE MISTRESS OF WYNDHAM

XX. UNWELCOME CHANGES COME IN FORTUNE'S TRAIN

XXI. GUY MAKES A DISCOVERY

XXII. A STRICKEN HEROINE AND A SHAMELESS SUITOR

XXIII. LOSSES AND GAINS

XXIV. A SECRET SORROW

XXV. HOW MRS. STANTON SPENT HER FIRST AFTERNOON AT WYNDHAM

XXVI. A FAREWELL

XXVII. AN ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING-FIELD

XXVIII. KITTY SHOWS THE STRENGTH OF HER CHARACTER

XXIX. A MIND DISEASED

XXX. THE WRONG DISCLOSED

XXXI. HOW GUY WAS PACIFIED

XXXII. THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS

ALDYTH'S INHERITANCE.