II. A CRUCIAL TEST
III. THE PLOTTER
IV. THE DENOUEMENT

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

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BOOK I.




CHAPTER I.

THE DREAMER.


So many of my dreams have come true, that I sometimes incline to believe
that dreams are in reality the only truths. I fancy this dream, at any
rate, will be fulfilled.

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A hard gale rushed over a torn sea, and the drift was swept so that the