Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) MISER FAREBROTHER. A Novel. BY B. L. FARJEON, AUTHOR OF "GREAT PORTER SQUARE," "GRIF," "IN A SILVER SEA," "THE HOUSE OF WHITE SHADOWS," ETC. _IN THREE VOLUMES._ VOL. III. LONDON: WARD & DOWNEY, 12, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1888. [_Dramatic rights protected and reserved._] PRINTED BY KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.; AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I.--A BAD BUSINESS 1 II.--THE DIAMOND BRACELET 8 III.--SISTER AND BROTHER 18 IV.--JEREMIAH IN TRIBULATION 29 V.--MISER FAREBROTHER THREATENS JEREMIAH 46 VI.--A DREAM OF AN ANGEL 71 VII.--BETTER THAN ANY DAY-DREAM 77 VIII.--PHOEBE IN PERIL 90 IX.--FRED CORNWALL TO THE RESCUE 106 X.--THE INQUEST 118 XI.--THE TRIAL AND VERDICT--EXTRACTED FROM A POPULAR DAILY PAPER 144 XII.--DICK GARDEN TO THE RESCUE 170 XIII.--THE DIAMOND BRACELET AGAIN 186 XIV.--RICHARD GARDEN MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF FANNY LETHBRIDGE 203 XV.--A STRANGE EXPERIMENT 216 XVI.--JEREMIAH AND HIS MOTHER DISAPPEAR 224 XVII.--CHIEFLY CONCERNING FANNY 238 XVIII.--A LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE 249 XIX.--OFF FOR THE HONEY-MOON 260 MISER FAREBROTHER. CHAPTER I. A BAD BUSINESS. At ten o'clock on this morning Captain Ablewhite, unannounced, and without knocking at the door, walked into Jeremiah's room in the hotel at which he had taken up his quarters. Jeremiah was still in bed. Closing the door carefully behind him and turning the key, Captain Ablewhite drew a chair to the side of the bed and sat down. "This is a bad business," said Captain Ablewhite. Jeremiah was in a parlous condition. His face was haggard; his eyes were bloodshot; he was shaking like a man in a palsy.