The following story, the first published by the author, was written nineteen years ago, at a time when he was feeling his way to a method. The principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which mystery, entanglement, surprise, and moral obliquity are depended on for exciting interest; but some of the scenes, and at least one of the characters, have been deemed not unworthy of a little longer preservation; and as they could hardly be repro-duced in a fragmentary form the novel is reissued complete-the more readily that it has for some considerable time been reprinted and widely cir-culated in America. January 1889.
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