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CONTENTS.

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I.--SYBIL'S SUBTERRANEAN ADVENTURES 21

II.--WHAT WAS SOUGHT, AND WHAT WAS FOUND 31

III.--THE EXPLOSION 43

IV.--AFTER THE EXPLOSION 47

V.--THE ROBBERS' CAVE 61

VI.--THE ROBBER CHIEFTAIN 68

VII.--GENTILISKA DUBARRY 80

VIII.--NELLY TO THE RESCUE 90

IX.--THE SECOND FLIGHT 103

X.--THE NIGHT ATTACK ON THE COACH 120

XI.--RAPHAEL 133

XII.--A WISE AND GOOD OLD MAN 144

XIII.--HOME 157

XIV.--THE TRIAL FOR LIFE 174

XV.--THE VERDICT 188

XVI.--CONDEMNED 193

XVII.--THE MERCIFUL INSANITY 203

XVIII.--HOW SYBIL RECEIVED HER DEATH WARRANT 214

XIX.--THE EXAMINATION 221

XX.--THE LAST EXPEDIENT 228

XXI.--ISHMAEL WORTH'S NEWS 234

XXII.--HOPE 240

XXIII.--SYBIL'S CHILD 248

XXIV.--THE GREAT VALLEY STORM 254

XXV.--THE GREAT VALLEY FLOOD 262

XXVI.--AFTER THE DISASTER 272

XXVII.--THE VICTIMS 283

XXVIII.--WHAT THE LETTER CONTAINED 290

XXIX.--AFTER THE EXPATRIATION 306

XXX.--THE GUARDIANS OF THE OLD HOUSE 313

XXXI.--GEM 326

XXXII.--THE LAST FATAL HALLOW EVE 337

XXXIII.--RETURN OF THE EXILE 345

TRIED FOR HER LIFE.

CHAPTER I.

SYBIL'S SUBTERRANEAN ADVENTURES.

Dark den is this,
Witch-haunted, devil-built, and filled
With horrid shapes, but not of men or beasts,
Or