Produced by Robert Cicconetti and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) MILDRED ARKELL. A Novel. BY MRS. HENRY WOOD, AUTHOR OF "EAST LYNNE," "LORD OAKBURN'S DAUGHTERS," "TREVLYN HOLD," ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND 1865. _All rights of Translation and Reproduction are reserved._ CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND--A SURPRISE 1 II. A DOUBTFUL SEARCH 24 III. DETECTION 43 IV. ASSIZE SATURDAY 68 V. ASSIZE SUNDAY 86 VI. PREACHING TO THE DEAN 103 VII. CARR VERSUS CARR 122 VIII. THE SECOND DAY 144 IX. THE SHADOWS OF DEATH 168 X. THE GRAVESTONE IN THE CLOISTERS 191 XI. THOUGHTLESS WORDS 213 XII. MISCONCEPTION 236 XIII. THE TABLES TURNED 256 XIV. A RECOGNITION 273 XV. MILDRED'S RECOMPENSE 290 XVI. MISS FAUNTLEROY LOVED AT LAST 309 MILDRED ARKELL. CHAPTER I. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.--A SURPRISE. It happened on that same second of December that Mr. Littelby took his place for the first time as conductor of the business of Mynn and Mynn. He had arrived at Eckford the previous day, as per agreement, but was not installed formally in the office until this. Old Mynn, not in his gout now, had come down early, and was brisk and lively; George Mynn was also there. He was an admitted solicitor just as much as were Mynn and Mynn; he was to be their confidential _locum tenens_; the whole management and conduct of affairs was, during their absence, to fall upon him; he was, in point of fact, to be practically a principal, not a clerk, and at the end of a year, if all went well, he was to be allowed a share in the business, and the firm would be Mynn, Mynn, and Littelby.