Sharing Her Crime: A Novel Read online

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  POPULAR NOVELS. BY MAY AGNES FLEMING.

  1.--GUY EARLSCOURT'S WIFE. 2.--A WONDERFUL WOMAN. 3.--A TERRIBLE SECRET. 4.--NORINE'S REVENGE. 5.--A MAD MARRIAGE. 6.--ONE NIGHT'S MYSTERY. 7.--KATE DANTON. 8.--SILENT AND TRUE. 9.--HEIR OF CHARLTON. 10.--CARRIED BY STORM. 11.--LOST FOR A WOMAN. 12.--A WIFE'S TRAGEDY. 13.--A CHANGED HEART. 14.--PRIDE AND PASSION. 15.--SHARING HER CRIME (_New_).

  "Mrs. Fleming's stories are growing more and more popular every day. Their delineations of character, life-like conversations, flashes of wit, constantly varying scenes, and deeply interesting plots, combine to place their author in the very first rank of Modern Novelists."

  All published uniform with this volume. Price, $1.50 each, and sent _free_ by mail on receipt of price,

  BY G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers, New York.

  SHARING HER CRIME.

  A Novel.

  BY MAY AGNES FLEMING,

  AUTHOR OF

  "GUY EARLSCOURT'S WIFE," "A TERRIBLE SECRET," "SILENT AND TRUE," "A WONDERFUL WOMAN," "LOST FOR A WOMAN," "ONE NIGHT'S MYSTERY," "A MAD MARRIAGE," ETC., ETC.

  "A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light."

  NEW YORK: Copyright, 1882, by _G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers_.

  LONDON: S. LOW & CO. MDCCCLXXXIII.

  Stereotyped by SAMUEL STODDER, 90 ANN STREET, N. Y.

  TROW PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING CO., N. Y.

  CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. The Plotters 7

  II. The Death of Esther 18

  III. The Astrologer 24

  IV. Barry Oranmore 29

  V. Mount Sunset Hall 37

  VI. Lizzie's Lover 49

  VII. The Cypress Wreath 62

  VIII. Gipsy 70

  IX. A Storm at Mount Sunset Hall 82

  X. Miss Hagar 91

  XI. Gipsy Outwits the Squire 101

  XII. The Tigress and the Dove 109

  XIII. Gipsy Astonishes the Natives 119

  XIV. The Moonlight Flitting 130

  XV. The "Star of the Valley." 139

  XVI. Our Gipsy 150

  XVII. Gipsy's Return to Sunset Hall 158

  XVIII. Archie 169

  XIX. Gipsy's Daring 182

  XX. The Sailor Boy's Doom 191

  XXI. The Spider Weaves his Web 204

  XXII. Fetters for the Eaglet 215

  XXIII. The Bird Caged 222

  XXIV. May and December 235

  XXV. Archie's Lost Love 246

  XXVI. Louis 254

  XXVII. Love at First Sight 267

  XXVIII. "The Old, Old Story." 277

  XXIX. The Rivals 287

  XXX. Gipsy Hunts New Game 296

  XXXI. Celeste's Trial 306

  XXXII. "The Queen of Song." 318

  XXXIII. A Startling Discovery 328

  XXXIV. Light in the Darkness 334

  XXXV. The Death-bed Confession 341

  XXXVI. Retribution 351

  XXXVII. Another Surprise 357

  XXXVIII. The Heiress of Sunset Hall 364

  XXXIX. "Last Scene of All." 373

  SHARING HER CRIME.