Front matter

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

"My father was dead, and my patrimony was hopelessly gone." Frontispiece.]

WORK, WAIT, WIN.

BY

RUTH LAMB

AUTHOR OF "ONE LITTLE VEIN OF DROSS," "AN ANGEL GUEST," "ONLY A GIRL WIFE," "COMFORTABLE MRS. CROOK," ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET.

MDCCCXCI.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. BAD NEWS

II. FROM HALL TO COTTAGE

III. MISS NELLY BURFORD GIVES HER OPINION

IV. LINT HALL HAS A TENANT

V. A PLEASANT SURPRISE

VI. MISS FLINT'S COMPANY MANNERS

VII. FASTING AND FEASTING

VIII. RETROSPECTIONS

IX. BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS

X. AN EAVESDROPPER

XI. A NIGHTLY VISITOR

XII. A SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD

XIII. MISS FLINT AIRS HER VIEWS

XIV. DANGEROUS GROUND

XV. A RIDDLE SOLVED

XVI. OLD TREES UPROOTED

XVII. WELCOME VISITORS

XVIII. FOREBODINGS AND HOPES

XIX. A "SORT OF RELATION" AT LINT HALL

XX. MISS FLINT'S ROMANCE

XXI. MRS. BURFORD'S SELF-COMMUNINGS

XXII. A COTTAGE MYSTERY

XXIII. WATCHINGS AND PERPLEXITIES

XXIV. MORS JANUA VITÆ

XXV. FORTUNE SMILES—AN ADVENTURE WITH BURGLARS

XXVI. A MYSTERY CLEARED UP

XXVII. MY TREASURE RECOVERED

WORK, WAIT, WIN.