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"The Secret of Wyvern Towers" in THE ARGOSY, VOLUME XXVI.
(DECEMBER, 1897), No. 1, pp. 1-78, published by Frank A. Munsey in 1898.
CONTENTS | |
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | VERY STRANGE TIDINGS. |
| II. | AFTER THE TELLING OF THE NEWS. |
| III. | SIR JOHN CONDUCTS THE INQUIRY. |
| IV. | A BACKWARD GLANCE. |
| V. | IN THE LEFT WING. |
| VI. | RECREANT LOVER. |
| VII. | AN AMAZING CONFESSION. |
| VIII. | THE BEGINNING OF THE END. |
| IX. | WAITING FOR THE VERDICT. |
| X. | IN THE LAST RESORT. |
| XI. | ONE STEP NEARER. |
| XII. | ON THE BRINK. |
| XIII. | LAST THINGS. |
| XIV. | WITH ALL SPEED. |
| XV. | THE SECRET OF WYVERN TOWERS. |
Being an account of the circumstances that shadowed the happiness ofFelix Drelincourt--Why two persons proclaimed themselves guilty of afearful crime, on account of which a vagabond's life was placed injeopardy--The blotting out of an identity brought about by anunexpected legacy.
(Complete in This Issue.)
On a certain sunny May morning, about forty years ago, the owner ofWyvern Towers stepped into a lovely glade of Barras Wood, which was aportion of his extensive property.
Felix Drelincourt was a man who stood a little over six feet inheight. His black, silky hair had a careless wave in it, and his thinmustache, with its up curled tips, was the cause of his often beingtaken for a foreigner.
But his eyes were the most striking feature of a striking personality.They were black, and of an extraordinarily piercing quality, with asort of veiled, somber glow in them at times, as it might be the glowthrown out from between