At the urgent insistence of his relatives Mr. Richard Ffrench, the step-son of the Honorable Robert Charlton of Charleton Place, agrees and marries a young girl in order to avoid any possible hint at impropriety.

Written by May Agnes Fleming (1840-1880); 38 chapters; 396 pages; 127,000 words.

Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1878 Carleton edition.

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Chapters:
[ PART FIRST. ]

• I.—Shaddeck Light;
• II.—Charlton Place;
• III.—A Fairy Tale;
• IV.—A Man’s Letter;
• V.—Before Breakfast;
• VI.—After Breakfast;
• VII.—In the Cool of the Evening;
• VIII.—By the Light of the Moon;
• IX.—How the Game was Made;
• X.—The End of the Fairy Tale;
• XI.—Shaddeck Light;
• XII.—An Evening at Shaddeck Light;
• XIII.—A Night at Shaddeck Light;
• XIV.—A Morning at Shaddeck Light;
• XV.—Captain Dick’s Wooing;
• XVI.—How Dora Does It;
• XVII.—A Girl’s Letter;
• XVIII.—The Days Before;
• XIX.—Captain Dick’s Wedding;
• XX.—Post-Nuptial;
• XI.—“The Girl I Left Behind Me.”
• XXII.—“When Day is Done.”

[ PART SECOND. ]

• I.—Vera;
• II.—A Look Behind;
• III.—“Love Took up the Glass of Time.”
• IV.—At Dawn of Day;
• V.—A Summer Afternoon;
• VI.—A Summer Night;
• VII.—“We Fell Out, My Wife and I.”
• VIII.—“O, We Fell Out, I Know not Why.”
• IX.—Charlton Place;
• X.—Husband and Wife;
• XI.—A Cry in the Night;
• XII.—In the Dead Hand;
• XIII.—In the Dark Hour;
• XIV.—Tracked;
• XV.—Trapped;
• XVI.—Shaddeck Light.