PREFACE
MUCH DARKER DAYS.
CHAPTER I.—The Curse (Registered).
CHAPTER II.—A Villain's By-Blow.
CHAPTER III.—Mes Gages! Mes Gages!
CHAPTER IV.—As A Hatter!
CHAPTER V.—The White Groom.
CHAPTER VI.—Hard As Nails.
CHAPTER VII.—Rescue And Retire!
CHAPTER VIII.—Local Colour.
CHAPTER IX.—Saved! Saved!
CHAPTER X.—Not Too Mad, But Just Mad Enough.
CHAPTER XI.—A Terrible Temptation.
CHAPTER XII.—Judge Juggins.
CHAPTER XIII.—Cleared Up. (From The 'Green Park Gazette.')
A belief that modern Christmas fiction is too cheerful in tone, too artistic in construction, and too original in motive, has inspired the author of this tale of middle-class life. He trusts that he has escaped, at least, the errors he deplores, and has set an example of a more seasonable and sensational style of narrative.
WHEN this story of my life, or of such parts of it as are not deemed wholly unfit for publication, is read (and, no doubt, a public which devoured 'Scrawled Black' will stand almost anything), it will be found that I have sometimes acted without prim cautiousness—that I have, in fact, wallowed in crime. Stillicide and
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