_The Comforter, or Short Addresses from the Book of Job_ 1850 _A Father's Legacy._ The Proverbs of Solomon in Prose and Verse 1850 _Freston Tower, or The Early Days of Cardinal Wolsey._ 3 vols. 1850 _Courtland_: a Novel. By the Daughter of Mary Anne Wellington. 3 vols. 1852 _The Union Child's Belief_ 1855 _J. H. Steggall. A Real History of a Suffolk Man_ 1857 _Canticles of Life_ 1858 ] [Footnote 7: The Secretary of the Borough of Ipswich Museum and Free Library.] [Footnote 8: The punishment of death for horse-stealing was abolished in 1832, but in 1833 a little boy of nine who pushed a stick through a cracked window and pulled out some painters' colours worth twopence was sentenced to death. Since 1838 no person has been hanged in England for any offence other than murder. See Spencer Walpole's _History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815_.] CONTENTS PAGE DEDICATION xvii AUTHOR'S PREFACE xix CHAPTER I. EARLY SCENES 1 II. THE TEMPTATION 26 III. MISFORTUNES 34 IV. DECEIT 47 V. WILD SCENES 56 VI. HARVEST-HOME 71 VII. THE CONFLICT 83 VIII. DISAPPOINTMENT 100 IX. EVIL WAYS 115 X. THE PARTING 120 XI. THE LAST INTERVIEW 131 XII. THE WELCOME VISIT 137 XIII. POVERTY AND PRIDE 152 XIV. A CHEERFUL CHANGE 166 XV. THE NEW PLACE 175 XVI. BRIGHT HOPES 187 XVII. ALTERCATION AND EXPLANATION 191 XVIII. THE RECONCILIATION 197 XIX. THE ALTERATION 206 XX. CHANGE OF SCENE AND CHANGE OF PLACE 219 XXI. GUILT AND CRIME 244 XXII. PREPARATION FOR TRIAL 268 XXIII. TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION TO DEATH 277 XXIV. THE REPRIEVE AND REMOVAL 290 XXV. THE ESCAPE 297 XXVI. PURSUIT AND CAPTURE 309 XXVII. SECOND TRIAL, AND SECOND TIME CONDEMNED TO DEATH 317