Dedication
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.
POSTSCRIPT.