Cruel As The Grave
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Chapter 1 THE BERNERS OF THE BURNING HEARTS.
Chapter 2 JOHN LYON HOWE.
Chapter 3 SYBIL BERNERS.
Chapter 4 THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGER.
Chapter 5 THE LANDLORD'S STORY.
Chapter 6 ROSA BLONDELLE.
Chapter 7 DOWN IN THE DARK VALE.
Chapter 8 BLACK HALL.
Chapter 9 THE GUEST-CHAMBERS.
Chapter 10 THE JEALOUS BRIDE.
Chapter 11 LOVE AND JEALOUSY.
Chapter 12 "CRUEL AS THE GRAVE."
Chapter 13 MORE THAN THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH.
Chapter 14 THE FIRST FATAL HALLOW EVE.
Chapter 15 THE MASQUERADE BALL.
Chapter 16 ON THE WATCH.
Chapter 17 DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.
Chapter 18 LYING IN WAIT.
Chapter 19 SWOOPING DOWN.
Chapter 20 THE SEARCH.
Chapter 21 SYBIL'S FLIGHT.
Chapter 22 THE HAUNTED CHAPEL.
Chapter 23 THE SOLITUDE IS INVADED.
Chapter 24 THE VERDICT AND THE VISITOR.
Chapter 25 THE FALL OF THE DUBARRYS.
Chapter 26 THE SPECTRE.
Chapter 27 FEARFUL WAITING.
Chapter 28 A GHASTLY PROCESSION.
Chapter 29 GHOSTLY AND MYSTERIOUS
Chapter 30 FLIGHT AND PURSUIT.
Chapter 31 THE ARREST.
Chapter 32 A DESPERATE VENTURE
Chapter 33 A FATAL CRISIS.
Chapter 34 THE PURSUIT.
Chapter 35 THE FUGITIVES.
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Chapter 16 ON THE WATCH.

False-from the head's crown to the foot's sole-false!

To think I never knew it until now,

Nor saw thro' him e'en when I saw him smile;

Saw that he meant this when he wed me,

When he caressed me! Yes, when he kissed my lips!-Browning

While this busy scene was being enacted below stairs, equally important, if quieter dramas were being

            
            

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