MISS M. CECIL HAY'S NOVELS. CHEAP UNIFORM EDITION. Price 2s. Picture Cover; 2s. 6d. Cloth, Gilt. VICTOR AND VANQUISHED. HIDDEN PERILS. [Shortly. [In the Press. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Paternoster Row. 25 'APR84 The above Works, entirely new and revised editions of which are here enumerated, have taken their place amongst the most popular Novels of the present day. They command a ready and large sale in the Colonies, where the scenes of some are laid, and where the author passed through many of the incidents so graphically and faithfully described. London: WARD, LOCK, & TYLER, Paternoster Row. OLD MYDDELTON'S MONEY. CHAPTER I. More water glideth by the mill, TITUS ANDRONICUS. A STRETCH of highway lay white and level in the dusk of the September evening, and on its margin stood a low red tavern, whose glory departed with the last stage-coach, and which crumbled to ruin, as slowly, but as surely, as did its grand old neighbour there behind the ivy-weighted walls of Abbotsmoor. For a whole mile this wall extended before it was broken by the iron gates through which a view was gained of the lodges and the sombre avenue; and under this wall, in the September twilight, a travelling-carriage rolled upon the wide, white road. Within a few yards of the iron gates, the horses were pulled up. The postilion, sitting square upon his saddle, looked straight along the road, as a well-trained post-boy should; the man-servant, seated with folded arms upon the box, and his eyes fixed upon the roadside tavern half a mile ahead; and neither of the men turned his head one inch when the carriage-door behind them was opened from within. No change upon their faces showed that they even understood why the horses had been stopped. A gentleman descended leisurely from the chaise, turned and addressed a few low words to some one within, and then closed the carriage-door again quietly. The gentleman stood in the shadow as he gave his orders to the servant B |