CHAPTER XXVII. RAWCLIFFE HALL.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A STARTLING DISCLOSURE.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBER.
CHAPTER XXX. A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE.
CHAPTER XXXI. SIR RICHARD RAWCLIFFE'S CONFESSION.
CHAPTER XXXII. ATHERTON'S DECISION IS MADE.
CHAPTER I. AN OLD JACOBITE DAME.
CHAPTER II. ATHERTON'S GIFT TO CONSTANCE.
CHAPTER III. A RETREAT RESOLVED UPON.
CHAPTER IV. HOW THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT WAS WELCOMED ON ITS RETURN.
CHAPTER V. A FRESH SUBSIDY DEMANDED.
CHAPTER VI. A FALSE MESSAGE BROUGHT TO HELEN.
CHAPTER VIII. HELEN PLEADS IN VAIN.
CHAPTER IX. TOGETHER TO THE LAST.
CHAPTER XII. THE RETREAT FROM MANCHESTER TO CARLISLE.
CHAPTER I. COLONEL TOWNLEY APPOINTED COMMANDANT OF THE CARLISLE GARRISON.
CHAPTER II. ATHERTON TAKEN PRISONER.
CHAPTER III. THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
CHAPTER IV. SURRENDER OF CARLISLE TO THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
CHAPTER I. THE ESCAPE AT WIGAN.
CHAPTER II. THE MEETING AT WARRINGTON.
CHAPTER III. ATHERTON TAKES REFUGE AT RAWCLIFFE HALL.
CHAPTER IV. AN ENEMY IN THE HOUSE.
CHAPTER VI. A LETTER FROM BEPPY BYROM.
CHAPTER VII. ATHERTON QUESTIONS THE PRIEST.
CHAPTER IX. WHO WAS FOUND IN THE DISMANTLED ROOMS.
CHAPTER X. A SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM.
CHAPTER XI. ATHERTON MEETS WITH DR. DEACON AT ROSTHERN.
CHAPTER XII. A SAD COMMUNICATION IS MADE TO DR. DEACON.
CHAPTER XIII. A JOURNEY TO LONDON PROPOSED.
CHAPTER XIV. JEMMY DAWSON'S LETTER.
CHAPTER XV. THE PARTING BETWEEN MONICA AND HER MOTHER.
CHAPTER I. MONICA VISITS JEMMY IN NEWGATE.
CHAPTER III. CUMBERLAND HOUSE.
CHAPTER IV. THE TRIAL OF THE MANCHESTER REBELS.
CHAPTER V. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXECUTIONS.
CHAPTER VII. FIVE YEARS LATER.
PREFACE.
All my early life being spent in Manchester, where I was born, bred, and schooled, I am naturally familiar with the scenes I have attempted to depict in this Tale.
Little of the old town, however, is now left. The lover of antiquity—if any such should visit Manchester—will search in vain for those picturesque black and white timber habitations, with pointed gables and latticed windows, that were common enough sixty years ago. Entire streets, embellished by such houses, have been swept away in the course of modern improvement. But I recollect them well. No great effort of imagination was therefore needed to reconstruct the old town as it existed in the middle of the last century; but I was saved from the possibility of error by an excellent plan, almost of the precise date, designed by John A. Berry, to which I made constant reference during my task. Views are given in this plan of the principal houses then recently erected, and as all these houses were occupied by Prince Charles and the Highland Chiefs during their stay in Manchester, I could conduct the Rebel leaders to their quarters