A SEARCH FOR A SECRET. A Novel. BY G. A. HENTY. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. 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. III. CHAPTER I. GREAT CHANGES CHAPTER II. A QUIET TIME CHAPTER III. A STRANGE PROFESSION CHAPTER IV. AN ODD WOOING CHAPTER V. TERRIBLE TIDINGS CHAPTER VI. THE SEARCH RENEWED CHAPTER VII. A BROKEN LIFE CHAPTER VIII. RISEN FROM THE DEAD CHAPTER IX. PREPARED FOR THE ATTEMPT CHAPTER X. THE SPY IN THE CAMP CHAPTER XI. OFF GUARD CHAPTER XII. FOUND! CHAPTER XIII. A VAIN PURSUIT CHAPTER XIV. ENJOYING THE SPOILS CHAPTER I. GREAT CHANGES. Now that I have finished the account of the last of the series of unsuccessful attempts which were made to find the will, I must hurry over the subsequent events of my life in a much briefer and more concise way. It is now nearly six years since Robert Gregory died, and I must content myself with a mere sketch of what has taken place in that time; for this my history has already spun out to a most unreasonable length, many times surpassing the limits I proposed to myself when I first sat down with the intention of writing it. But my pen has run on and on, as I recalled all the past events of my life; and I feel every day, when I see the mass of manuscript which has accumulated in my drawer—for my desk has long since been too small to contain its growing bulk—that the chances that any one will ever take the trouble to read it through, are growing fainter and fainter every day. However, should it be so, my task has served its purpose. It has, by chaining my attention to the period of which I have been writing, saved me from many an hour of sorrowful
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