Ada, the Betrayed;
or,
The Murder at the Old Smithy.
A Romance of Passion.
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John Malcolm Rymer
The Storm.—The Old Smithy.—A Deed of Blood.—The Death Cry.—The Child of the Dead.—Remorse and Despair.
The Lull of the Tempest.—Morning is Coming.—The Child of Mystery.—The Necklace.—A Surprise and a Disappearance.—The Inscription.—The Lord of Learmont.
Ten Years have Flown.—The Old Rose Inn.—A Snow Storm.—Tom the Factotum.—An Arrival to the Old Smithy.—The Mysterious Stranger.
The Old Smithy.—A Lone Man.—The Alarm.—The Mysterious Conference.—Guilt and Misery.
The Morning.—A Visit.—Blasted Hopes.—The Arranged Meeting.—The Packet.—And the Knife.
Night Again.—The Ruins.—The Conference.—The Old Oaken Door.—The Resolve.
The Conference, Continued.—Mutual Security.—The Oaken Door and the Strange Appearance.—Mysteries Thicken.
The Mansion.—Offers of Magnitude.—The Double Plot.
London in 1742.—Gray’s Home.—The Child.—The Voice of Conscience.—A Visit.
The Disappearance.—Mrs. Bridget Strangeways and the Old Oaken Chest.—Albert’s Grief and Despair.
Learmont in London.—The Endeavour to Drown Thought.—Life in 1742.—All is not Gold that Glitters.
The Consequences of Crime.—A Familiar Friend.—A Cloud upon Learmont’s Felicity.
A Walk in the Park.—A Recognition.—The Question.—A Defiance.—Jacob Gray’s First Visit.—The Dream.
The Dark Threat.—The Biter Bit.—Another Murder Projected.—Learmont’s Reasoning.
Chase.—A Long Race, And its Results.
The Lone House in Ancient Lambeth.—The Boy.—A Solitary Heart.
“The Chequers,” at Westminster.—Britton’s Notions of Greatness.—“When the Wine is In, the Wit is Out.”
The Lone Max.—The Voice