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Title: The Legacy of Cain
Author: Wilkie Collins
Release Date: October 15, 2008 [EBook #1975]
Language: English
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THE LEGACY OF CAIN
By Wilkie Collins
To
MRS. HENRY POWELL BARTLEY:
Permit me to add your name to my name, in publishing this novel. The pen which has written my books cannot be more agreeably employed than in acknowledging what I owe to the pen which has skillfully and patiently helped me, by copying my manuscripts for the printer.
WILKIE COLLINS.
Wimpole Street, 6th December, 1888.
Contents
THE LEGACY OF CAIN.
First Period: 1858-1859. EVENTS IN THE PRISON, RELATED BY THE GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER I. THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINS.
CHAPTER II. THE MURDERESS ASKS QUESTIONS.
CHAPTER III. THE CHILD APPEARS.
CHAPTER IV. THE MINISTER SAYS YES.
CHAPTER V. MISS CHANCE ASSERTS HERSELF.
CHAPTER VI. THE DOCTOR DOUBTS.
CHAPTER VII. THE MURDERESS CONSULTS THE AUTHORITIES.
CHAPTER VIII. THE MINISTER SAYS GOOD-BY.
CHAPTER IX. THE GOVERNOR RECEIVES A VISIT.
CHAPTER X. MISS CHANCE REAPPEARS.
Second Period: 1875. THE GIRLS AND THE JOURNALS.
CHAPTER XI. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XII. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XIII. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XIV. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XV. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XVI. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XVII. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XVIII. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XIX. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XX. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXI. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXII. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXIII. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXIV. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXV. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXVI. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXVII. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXIX. HELENA'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXX. EUNICE'S DIARY.
CHAPTER XXXI. EUNICE'S DIARY.
