of Lone

Sweet Love's Atonement

Test of Love, The
Sequel to A Tortured Heart

To His Fate
Sequel to Dorothy Harcourt's Secret

Tortured Heart, A
Sequel to The Trail of the Serpent

Trail of the Serpent, The

Tried for Her Life
Sequel to Cruel as the Grave

Unloved Wife, The

Unrequited Love, An
Sequel to For Woman's Love

Victor's Triumph
Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend

When Love Commands

When Shadows Die
Sequel to Love's Bitterest Cup

Why Did He Wed Her?

Zenobia's Suitors
Sequel to Sweet Love's Atonement

For Sale by all Booksellers or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price,

A.L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
52 Duane Street New York

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PREFACE.

This story, in book form, has been called for during several years past,
but the author has reserved it until now; not only because she considers
it to be her very best work, but because it is peculiarly a national
novel, being founded on the life and career of one of the noblest of our
countrymen, who really lived, suffered, toiled, and triumphed in this
land; one whose inspirations of wisdom and goodness were drawn from the
examples of the heroic warriors and statesmen of the Revolution, and who
having by his own energy risen from the deepest obscurity to the highest
fame, became in himself an illustration of the elevating influence of
our republican institutions.

"In the Depths" he was born indeed--in the very depths of poverty,
misery, and humiliation. But through Heaven's blessing on his
aspirations and endeavors, he raised himself to the summit of fame.

He was good as well as great. His goodness won the love of all who knew
him intimately. His greatness gained the homage of the world. He became,
in a word, one of the brightest stars in Columbia's diadem of light.

His identity will be recognized by those who were familiar with his
early personal history; but for obvious reasons his real name must be
veiled under a fictitious one here.

His life is a guiding-star to the youth of every land, to show them that
there is no depth of human misery from which they may not, by virtue,
energy and perseverance, rise to earthly honors as well as to eternal
glory.

Emma D. E. N. Southworth.
Prospect Cottage,
Georgetown, D.C.

CONTENTS.

I. THE SISTERS
II. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
III. PASSION
IV. THE FATAL DEED
V.