Wylder's Hand

by

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Table of Contents

  1. RELATING HOW I DROVE THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF GYLINGDEN WITH MARK WYLDER’S LETTER IN MY VALISE.
  2. IN WHICH I ENTER THE DRAWING-ROOM.
  3. OUR DINNER PARTY AT BRANDON.
  4. IN WHICH WE GO TO THE DRAWING-ROOM AND THE PARTY BREAKS UP.
  5. IN WHICH MY SLUMBER IS DISTURBED.
  6. IN WHICH DORCAS BRANDON SPEAKS.
  7. RELATING HOW A LONDON GENTLEMAN APPEARED IN REDMAN’S DELL.
  8. IN WHICH CAPTAIN LAKE TAKES HIS HAT AND STICK.
  9. I SEE THE RING OF THE PERSIAN MAGICIAN.
  10. THE ACE OF HEARTS.
  11. IN WHICH LAKE UNDER THE TREES OF BRANDON, AND I IN MY CHAMBER, SMOKE OUR NOCTURNAL CIGARS.
  12. IN WHICH UNCLE LORNE TROUBLES ME.
  13. THE PONY CARRIAGE
  14. IN WHICH VARIOUS PERSONS GIVE THEIR OPINIONS OF CAPTAIN STANLEY LAKE.
  15. DORCAS SHOWS HER JEWELS TO MISS LAKE.
  16. ‘JENNY, PUT THE KETTLE ON.’
  17. RACHEL LAKE SEES WONDERFUL THINGS BY MOONLIGHT FROM HER WINDOW.
  18. MARK WYLDER’S SLAVE.
  19. THE TARN IN THE PARK.
  20. CAPTAIN LAKE TAKES AN EVENING STROLL ABOUT GYLINGDEN.
  21. IN WHICH CAPTAIN LAKE VISITS HIS SISTER’S SICK BED.
  22. IN WHICH CAPTAIN LAKE MEETS A FRIEND NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE.
  23. HOW RACHEL SLEPT THAT NIGHT IN REDMAN’S FARM.
  24. DORCAS BRANDON PAYS RACHEL A VISIT.
  25. CAPTAIN LAKE LOOKS IN AT NIGHTFALL.
  26. CAPTAIN LAKE FOLLOWS TO LONDON.
  27. LAWYER LARKIN’S MIND BEGINS TO WORK.
  28. MARK WYLDER’S SUBMISSION.
  29. HOW MARK WYLDER’S DISAPPEARANCE AFFECTED HIS FRIENDS.
  30. IN BRANDON PARK.
  31. IN REDMAN’S DELL.
  32. MR. LARKIN AND THE VICAR.
  33. THE LADIES ON GYLINGDEN HEATH.
  34. SIR JULIUS HOCKLEY’S LETTER.
  35. THE HUNT BALL.
  36. THE BALL ROOM.
  37. THE SUPPER-ROOM.
  38. AFTER THE BALL.
  39. IN WHICH MISS RACHEL LAKE COMES TO BRANDON, AND DOCTOR BUDDLE CALLS AGAIN.
  40. THE ATTORNEY’S ADVENTURES ON THE WAY HOME.
  41. IN WHICH SIR FRANCIS SEDDLEY MANIPULATES.
  42. A PARAGRAPH IN THE COUNTY PAPER.
  43. AN EVIL EYE LOOKS ON THE VICAR.
  44. IN WHICH OLD TAMAR LIFTS UP HER VOICE IN PROPHECY.
  45. DEEP AND SHALLOW.
  46. DEBATE AND INTERRUPTION.
  47. A THREATENING NOTICE.
  48. IN WHICH I GO TO BRANDON, AND SEE AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE IN THE TAPESTRY ROOM.
  49. LARCOM, THE BUTLER, VISITS THE ATTORNEY.
  50. NEW LIGHTS.
  51. A FRACAS IN THE LIBRARY.
  52. AN OLD FRIEND LOOKS INTO THE GARDEN AT REDMAN’S FARM.
  53. THE VICAR’S COMPLICATIONS, WHICH LIVELY PEOPLE HAD BETTER NOT READ.
  54. BRANDON CHAPEL ON SUNDAY.
  55. THE CAPTAIN AND THE ATTORNEY CONVERSE AMONG THE TOMBS.
  56. THE BRANDON CONSERVATORY.
  57. CONCERNING A NEW DANGER WHICH THREATENED CAPTAIN STANLEY LAKE.
  58. MISS RACHEL LAKE BECOMES VIOLENT.
  59. AN ENEMY IN REDMAN’S DELL.
  60. RACHEL LAKE BEFORE THE ACCUSER.
  61. IN WHICH DAME DUTTON IS VISITED.
  62. THE CAPTAIN EXPLAINS WHY MARK WYLDER ABSCONDED.
  63. THE ACE OF HEARTS.
  64. IN THE DUTCH ROOM.
  65. I REVISIT BRANDON HALL.
  66. LADY MACBETH.
  67. MR. LARKIN IS VIS-A-VIS WITH A CONCEALED COMPANION.
  68. THE COMPANION DISCLOSES HIMSELF.
  69. OF A SPECTRE WHOM OLD TAMAR SAW.
  70. THE MEETING IN THE LONG POND ALLEY.
  71. SIR HARRY BRACTON’S INVASION OF GYLINGDEN.
  72. MARK WYLDER’S HAND.
  73. THE MASK FALLS.
  74. WE TAKE LEAVE OF OUR FRIENDS.

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