A SEARCH FOR A SECRET. A Novel. BY G. A. HENTY. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND. 1867. LONDON: WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS, W.C. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER I. A FAMILY CONCLAVE CHAPTER II. SWIFT RETRIBUTION CHAPTER III. THE SEARCH COMMENCED CHAPTER IV. EVIL DAYS CHAPTER V. OVERTURES FROM THE ENEMY CHAPTER VI. THE PRIEST'S CHAMBER CHAPTER VII. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE CHAPTER VIII. STRUGGLES FOR A LIVING CHAPTER IX. POLLY TO THE RESCUE CHAPTER X. ALLIES FROM ALSATIA CHAPTER XI. THE COUP DE MAIN CHAPTER XII. AFTER THE BATTLE CHAPTER XIII. A YOUNG WIDOW CHAPTER I. A FAMILY CONCLAVE. For some little time after Dr. Ashleigh's carriage drove off from Harmer Place, not a word was spoken. The scene through which its occupants had passed, had left a deep impression upon them—even upon Mr. Petersfield, who was by no means of a nature to be easily moved. Dr. Ashleigh felt greatly the words he had spoken, the wrong which had been committed, and the thought of his children's altered future. Harry felt more indignant than hurt; he was too astonished and angry to reflect yet how much it would affect himself. Perhaps if he had one wish more predominant than another, it was that the Misses Harmer were but men—men of about his own age, and that he could get them into some quiet spot—by Jove, would not he find out where the will was hidden! But Robert Gregory felt the disappointment with all its force. To him the blow had been so overwhelming and crushing, that his fierce temper was beaten down and mastered by it; and he had borne it with a sense of dull despair, very unlike the passionate outburst of wrath which might have been expected from
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