| CHAPTER X — THE RETURN

IT wanted an hour to the first streaks of day-break, when Matangini with sad heart and heavy steps again threadedContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XI — WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT

In which is discussed the physical possibility of a robber being robbed and an assassin assassinated. “YOU think of killingContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XII – THE FRIENDS AND THE STRANGER

THE recent shower had lent to the morning a delightful and invigorating freshness. Leaving the mass of floating clouds behind,Continue Reading

| CHAPTER XIII – THE PROTECTRESS

THE house of Mathur Ghose was a genuine specimen of mofussil magnificence united with mofussil want of cleanliness. From theContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XIV – BETWEEN RIVAL CHAMBERS

Containing a dissertation on connubial warfare.—A siege and a dubious capitulation. MATHUR Ghose, as our reader had no doubt guessedContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XV – CONSULTATIONS AND COUNCIL

CHAPTER XVCONSULTATIONS AND COUNCIL THE wild and lovely shores of the Madhumati are covered even in the vicinity of well-inhabitedContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XVI – WHAT BEFELL OUR HERO

THREE days had elapsed since the occurrences of the last chapter. The night was dark, and the brilliant and tremblingContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XVII – THE VIGILANCE OF LOVE

AT the hour when this strange turn of fortune overtook the hero of our tale, for such we believe theContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XVIII – CAPTORS AND CAPTIVE

LET us shift the scene. A solitary and feeble lamp lighted a gloomy and low-roofed room, whose sombre and massiveContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XIX – MADHAV AND TARA

MADHAV and Tara had known each other from their infancy. Tara’s father and Madhav’s maternal grandfather were residents of theContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XX – SOME WOMEN ARE THE EQUALS OF SOME MEN

TARA and Madhav bore away the seemingly lifeless Matangini to an apartment which was secure from interruption. The exertions ofContinue Reading

| CHAPTER XXI—THE LAST CHAPTER IN LIFE’S BOOK—AND IN THIS

THE evening that followed was a tempestuous and gloomy one. The wind howled, the rain fell in torrents, and theContinue Reading