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  POPULAR NOVELS.
  BY MAY AGNES FLEMING.

   1.--GUY EARLSCOURT'S WIFE.
   2.--A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
   3.--A TERRIBLE SECRET.
   4.--NORINE'S REVENGE.
   5.--A MAD MARRIAGE.
   6.--ONE NIGHT'S MYSTERY.
   7.--KATE DANTON.
   8.--SILENT AND TRUE.
   9.--HEIR OF CHARLTON.
  10.--CARRIED BY STORM.
  11.--LOST FOR A WOMAN.
  12.--A WIFE'S TRAGEDY.
  13.--A CHANGED HEART.
  14.--PRIDE AND PASSION.
  15.--SHARING HER CRIME (_New_).


  "Mrs. Fleming's stories are growing more and more popular every day.
  Their delineations of character, life-like conversations, flashes of
  wit, constantly varying scenes, and deeply interesting plots,
  combine to place their author in the very first rank of Modern
  Novelists."


  All published uniform with this volume. Price, $1.50
  each, and sent _free_ by mail on receipt of price,

  BY
  G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers,
  New York.




  SHARING
  HER CRIME.

  A Novel.

  BY
  MAY AGNES FLEMING,

  AUTHOR OF

  "GUY EARLSCOURT'S WIFE," "A TERRIBLE SECRET," "SILENT AND TRUE,"
  "A WONDERFUL WOMAN," "LOST FOR A WOMAN,"
  "ONE NIGHT'S MYSTERY," "A MAD MARRIAGE,"
  ETC., ETC.

      "A perfect woman, nobly planned,
      To warn, to comfort, and command;
      And yet a spirit still and bright,
      With something of an angel light."


  NEW YORK: Copyright, 1882, by
  _G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers_.

  LONDON: S. LOW & CO.
  MDCCCLXXXIII.


  Stereotyped by
  SAMUEL STODDER,
  90 ANN STREET, N. Y.

  TROW
  PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING CO.,
  N. Y.





                       CONTENTS.


   CHAPTER                                 PAGE

        I. The Plotters                       7

       II. The Death of Esther               18

      III. The Astrologer                    24

       IV. Barry Oranmore                    29

        V. Mount Sunset Hall                 37

       VI. Lizzie's Lover                    49

      VII. The Cypress Wreath                62

     VIII. Gipsy                             70

       IX. A Storm at Mount Sunset Hall      82

        X. Miss Hagar                        91

       XI. Gipsy Outwits the Squire         101

      XII. The Tigress and the Dove         109

     XIII. Gipsy Astonishes the Natives     119

      XIV. The Moonlight Flitting           130

       XV. The "Star of the Valley."        139

      XVI. Our Gipsy                        150

     XVII. Gipsy's Return to Sunset Hall    158

    XVIII. Archie                           169

      XIX. Gipsy's Daring                   182

       XX. The Sailor Boy's Doom            191

      XXI. The Spider Weaves his Web        204

     XXII. Fetters for the Eaglet           215

    XXIII. The Bird Caged                   222

     XXIV. May and December                 235

      XXV. Archie's Lost Love               246

     XXVI. Louis                            254

    XXVII. Love at First Sight              267

   XXVIII. "The Old, Old Story."            277

     XXIX. The Rivals                       287

      XXX. Gipsy Hunts New Game             296

     XXXI. Celeste's Trial                  306

    XXXII. "The Queen of Song."             318

   XXXIII. A Startling Discovery            328

    XXXIV. Light in the Darkness            334

     XXXV. The Death-bed Confession         341

    XXXVI. Retribution                      351

   XXXVII. Another Surprise                 357

  XXXVIII. The Heiress of Sunset Hall       364

    XXXIX. "Last Scene of All."             373





SHARING HER CRIME.




CHAPTER I.

THE PLOTTERS.


    "'Tis a woman hard of feature,
    Old, and void of all good nature.
    'Tis an ugly, envious shrew,
