A HAUNTED LIFE BY JAMES GRANT AUTHOR OF 'THE ROMANCE OF WAR' LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL NEW YORK: 9, LAFAYETTE PLACE 1883 JAMES GRANT'S NOVELS, _Price 2s. each, Fancy Boards._ The Romance of War The Aide-de-Camp The Scottish Cavalier Bothwell Jane Seton: or, the Queen's Advocate Philip Rollo The Black Watch Mary of Lorraine Oliver Ellis: or, the Fusileers Lucy Arden: or, Hollywood Hall Frank Hilton: or, the Queen's Own The Yellow Frigate Harry Ogilvie: or, the Black Dragoons Arthur Blane Laura Everingham: or, the Highlanders of Glenora The Captain of the Guard Letty Hyde's Lovers Cavaliers of Fortune Second to None The Constable of France The Phantom Regiment The King's Own Borderers The White Cockade First Love and Last Love Dick Rooney The Girl he Married Lady Wedderburn's Wish Jack Manly Only an Ensign Adventures of Rob Roy Under the Red Dragon The Queen's Cadet Shall I Win Her? Fairer than a Fairy One of the Six Hundred Morley Ashton Did She Love Him? The Ross-shire Buffs Six Years Ago Vere of Ours The Lord Hermitage The Royal Regiment Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders The Cameronians The Scots Brigade Violet Jermyn Jack Chaloner CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE MEET OF THE COACHING CLUB II. TREVOR CHUTE'S REVERIE III. HIS VISIT TO CLARE IV. IDA V. HOW WILL IT END? VI. SIR CARNABY COLLINGWOOD VII. A PROPOSAL VIII. 'THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STARS' IX. DOUBTS DISPELLED X. FOR WHOM THE JEWELS WERE INTENDED XI. A ROMANCE OF THE DRAWING-ROOM XII. IN THE KONGENS NYTORV XIII. BY THE EXPRESS FOR LUBECK XIV. AN IMBROGLIO XV. 'LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH' XVI. 'JEALOUSY CRUEL AS THE GRAVE' XVII. A QUARREL XVIII. THE EMEUTE AT LUBECK XIX. SIR CARNABY'S GRATITUDE XX. CARNABY COURT XXI. CHRISTMAS EVE A HAUNTED LIFE. CHAPTER I. THE MEET OF THE COACHING CLUB. 'Be patient, Trevor Chute; they are sure to be here to-day, old fellow, for Ida told me so.' 'Ida?' 'Yes, Mrs. Beverley; does that surprise you?' asked the other, with a singular smile--one that was rather sardonic. 'No, Jerry, I have long ceased to be surprised at anything. As I have told you, my special mission in town is a visit to her; but--so you and she are good friends still?' 'Yes, though she has been six months a widow, we are on the same strange terms in which you left us last--friends pure and simple.' 'And nothing more?' 'As yet,' replied Jerry Vane, lowering his voice, with something of despondency perceptible in his tone, and to a close observer it might have been apparent that he, though by nature frank, jovial, and good-humoured, had, by force of habit, or by circumstances, a somewhat cynical mode of expression and gravity of manner.