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Books "The Grey Monk" in THE ARGOSY (Vol.s 57 & 58)











Transcriber's Notes:
     1. Page scan source: Chapters 1-25. "The Argosy. Vol. LVII.
        January to June, 1894."
        https://books.google.com/books?id=xCY2AAAAMAAJ
        (the University of Michigan)

        Chapters 26-51. "The Argosy. Vol. LVIII.
        July to December, 1894."
        https://books.google.com/books?id=A-kYAQAAIAAJ
        (the University of California)

     2. Illustrations (by M. L. Gow) are not reproduced here.





THE GREY MONK.

By T. W. SPEIGHT.






CONTENTS.

Chap.  I. Alec's Sentence.
      II. An Old Family and its Home.
     III. Alec's Proposition.
      IV. An Offer and its Acceptance.
       V. At One Fell Blow.
      VI. Alec's Fate.
     VII. Too Late.
    VIII. The Ebony Casket.
      IX. Ethel and Tamsin.
       X. Launce Keymer.
      XI. Hopes and Fears.
     XII. A Recreant Lover.
    XIII. Captain Verinder and his Visitor.
     XIV. The Captain Takes a Little Journey.
      XV. Conspirators Three.
     XVI. How Sir Gilbert received the News.
    XVII. Sir Gilbert and Giovanna.
   XVIII. The False Heir.
     XIX. Luigi Acknowledged.
      XX. Sir Gilbert's Decision.
     XXI. Affairs at St. Oswyth's.
    XXII. Father and Son.
   XXIII. Ethel's Confession
    XXIV. Tamsin Speaks her Mind.
     XXV. Lady Pell.
    XXVI. Giovanna at Maylings.
   XXVII. "Mr. Lewis Clare."
  XXVIII. The Progress of Events.
    XXIX. Arrivals at the Chase.
     XXX. An Unexpected Meeting.
    XXXI. Luigi's Escapade.
   XXXII. Sir Gilbert's Decision.
  XXXIII. Uncle and Nephew.
   XXXIV. A Desperate Resolve.
    XXXV. Matters at the Chase.
   XXXVI. A Deed of Darkness.
  XXXVII. The Defeat of Roguery.
 XXXVIII. Unanswered Questions.
   XXXIX. The Counsel of Experience.
      XL. "Love took up the Harp of Life."
     XLI. Sir Gilbert's Strange Experience.
    XLII. Sir Gilbert's Theory.
   XLIII. The Root of the Mystery.
    XLIV. Back at St. Oswyth's.
     XLV. "Come Back to Me."
    XLVI. Unknitted Threads.
   XLVII. Husband and Wife.
  XLVIII. Sir Gilbert's Great Surprise.
    XLIX. Payment in Full.
       L. The Veiled Stranger.
      LI. Safe in Port.






THE ARGOSY.
_JANUARY, 1894_.

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THE GREY MONK.
By The Author Of "The Mysteries Of Heron <DW18>."




CHAPTER I.
ALEC'S SENTENCE.


It was a wild and stormy October night. The big moon-faced clock in
the entrance-hall, in its slow and solemn fashion, as of a horologe
that felt the burden of its years, had just announced the hour of
eleven.

In his study alone, busy among his coins and curios, sat Sir Gilbert
Clare of Withington Chase, Hertfordshire, and Chase Ridings,
Yorkshire, a handsome, well-preserved man, in years somewhere between
fifty and sixty. He had a tall, thin, upright figure, strongly marked
features of an aquiline type, a snow-white moustache, and an
expression at once proud and imperious.

It would, indeed, have been difficult to find a prouder man than Sir
Gilbert. He was proud of the long line of his ancestors, of the brave
men and beautiful women who, from their faded frames in the picture
gallery, seemed to smile approval on the latest representative of
their race. He was proud of the unsullied name which had come down to
him from them, on which no action of his had ever cast the shadow of a
stain. He was proud of the position, which he accepted as his by
right, in his native county; he was proud of his three sturdy boys, at
this hour wrapped in the sleep of innocent childhood. But his pride
was strictly locked up in his own bosom. No syllable ever escaped him