Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_. Decorative images before and after every chapter have not been referenced. TORWOOD’S TRUST. A Novel. BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN. ‘Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety ... I protest, our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid.’ HENRY IV., _Pt. I., Act II., Sc. III._ IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1884. [_All Rights Reserved._] CONTENTS OF VOL. III. CHAPTER PAGE I. DETECTED 1 II. THE ATTACK 21 III. A STRANGE AWAKENING 41 IV. ESCAPE 61 V. FIRST EXPERIENCES 80 VI. THE WISHING WELL 100 VII. THE LAST STRAW 120 VIII. FACE TO FACE 140 IX. PHIL OR TOR? 161 X. MR. AND MRS. BELASSIS 181 XI. MR. MEREDITH’S VIEW 202 XII. A MAN AND A BROTHER 219 XIII. LEWIS’S FATE 239 XIV. THE LOST WILL 259 XV. THE FALL OF BELASSIS 279 XVI. THE LAST 299 TORWOOD’S TRUST. CHAPTER I. DETECTED. ‘You have kept your appointment, Monsieur—that is well,’ said Mrs. Belassis, in her measured tones. ‘I am convinced that we ought to understand one another, that we have the same object in view. It would facilitate matters if you would speak out more frankly, and tell me what is the real object of your visit here.’ ‘I came to see Mr. Meredith,’ answered the Italian, with irritating caution. Mrs. Belassis would not allow her impatience to betray itself.