chapter XXIV

had no title and began with the poetic quotation: “My blood is chill; his blood is cold; His death is full, and mine begun.”

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

This sentence was garbled in the book edition and has been restored here from the original serial appearance: “After three years of freedom her master had found her out, had come to her with a heavy hand and a story she knew was a lie.”

Table of contents has been added and placed into the public domain by the transcriber.

Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. upstairs vs. up-stairs) is preserved from the original text.