Chapter I: Front Matter

A CHANGED HEART

A Novel.

BY MAY AGNES FLEMING,

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

"If Fortune, with a smiling face,
Strew roses on our way,
When shall we stoop to pick them up?
To-day, my love, to-day."

NEW YORK:
Copyright, 1881, by
_G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers_,
LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO.
MDCCCLXXXIII.

Stereotyped by
SAMUEL STODDER,
ELECTROTYPER & STEREOTYPER,
90 ANN STREET, N. Y.

TROW
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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Miss McGregor at home 7

II. Nathalie 14

III. Miss Rose 25

IV. Val's office 36

V. Killing two birds with one stone 46

VI. An evening at Miss Blake's 59

VII. Too many irons in the fire 67

VIII. Val turns mentor 82

IX. Wooed and won 95

X. Fast and loose 112

XI. How Captain Cavendish meant to marry Cherrie. 123

XII. In which the wedding comes off 138

XIII. After the wedding 150

XIV. Mining the ground 157

XV. Springing the mine 167

XVI. A crime 179

XVII. Found guilty 191

XVIII. The darkening sky 207

XIX. The flight 217

XX. "One more unfortunate" 227

XXI. Mrs. Butterby's lodgings 236

XXII. The heiress of Redmon 247

XXIII. The heiress of Redmon enters society 259

XXIV. The spell of the enchantress 275

XXV. The double compact 283

XXVI. Mr. Paul Wyndham 299

XXVII. Mr. Wyndham's wooing 312

XXVIII. Mr. Wyndham's wedding 324

XXIX. Mr. Wyndham's mother 336

XXX. Very mysterious 349

XXXI. Val's discovery 366

XXXII. Cherrie tells the truth 377

XXXIII. Overtaken 391

XXXIV. The Vesper-Hymn 406

XXXV. "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" 417

XXXVI. Drifting out 425

XXXVII. Dies Iræ, Dies Illa 430

XXXVIII. Out of the crooked ways 450

XXXIX. In Hope 478

A CHANGED HEART.