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IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.



A Novel.




IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.




LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON.
1874.

(_All rights reserved_.)






CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

CHAPTER
     I. A WAY OUT OF THE DIFFICULTY.

    II. IN THE SYCAMORE WALK.

   III. MISS CULPEPPER SPEAKS HER MIND.

    IV. KNOCKLEY HOLT.

     V. AT THE THREE CROWNS HOTEL.

    VI. TOM FINDS HIS TONGUE.

   VII. EXIT MRS. MCDERMOTT.

  VIII. DIRTY JACK.

    IX. WHAT TO DO NEXT?

     X. HOW TOM WINS HIS WIFE.

    XI. THE EIGHTH OF MAY.

   XII. GATHERED THREADS.






IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.




CHAPTER I.
A WAY OUT OF THE DIFFICULTY.


Two hours after the receipt of Mrs. McDermott's second letter, Squire
Culpepper was on his way to Sugden's bank. His heart was heavy, and
his step slow. He had never had to borrow a farthing from any man--at
least, never since he had come into the estate--and he felt the
humiliation, as he himself called it, very bitterly. There was
something of bitterness, too, in having to confess to his friend Cope
how all his brilliant castles in the air had vanished utterly, leaving
not a wrack behind.

He could see, in imagination, the sneer that would creep over Cope's
face as the latter asked him why he could not