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Title: Hidden Hand

Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Release Date: August 30, 2009 [eBook #29866]

Language: English

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HIDDEN HAND

by

MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH

Author of THE CURSE OF CLIFTON

New York
Hurst & Company
Publishers

CONTENTS.

I. The Nocturnal Visit

II. The Masks

III. The Quest

IV. Capitola

V. The Discovery

VI. A Short, Sad Story

VII. Metamorphosis of the Newsboy

VIII. Herbert Greyson

IX. Marah Rocke

X. The Room of the Trap-Door

XI. A Mystery and a Storm at Hurricane Hall

XII. Marah's Dream

XIII. Marah's Memories

XIV. The Wasting Heart

XV. Cap's Country Capers

XVI. Cap's Fearful Adventure

XVII. Another Storm at Hurricane Hall

XVIII. The Doctor's Daughter

XIX. The Resigned Soul

XX. The Outlaw's Rendezvous

XXI. Gabriel LeNoir

XXII. The Smuggler and Capitola

XXIII. The Boy's Love

XXIV. Capitola's Mother

XXV. Cap's Tricks and Perils

XXVI. The Peril and the Pluck of Cap

XXVII. Seeking his Fortune

XVIII. A Panic in the Outlaw's Den

XXIX. The Victory Over Death

XXX. The Orphan

THE HIDDEN HAND.

CHAPTER I.

THE NOCTURNAL VISIT.

* * * Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me when every sound appals me?
* * * I hear a knocking
In the south entry! Hark!--More knocking!
--Shakespeare.

Hurricane Hall is a large old family mansion, built of dark-red
sandstone, in one of the loneliest and wildest of the mountain regions
of Virginia.

The estate is surrounded on three sides by a range of steep, gray rocks,
spiked with clumps of dark evergreens, and called, from its horseshoe
f