The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-12
Now FIRST PUBLISHED
1rcPYRrHHrFD 1873
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

PRoLoGUE CHAPTERS I. TO IIL-Sir Nlch0-
las Cars.aud, a wealthy mi-e owner. VINO
has made q fortune, though he 'IAHleNCHd
life in the pit, has two sons, half brothers one,
the elder, Frederick, a calculating scheIner' lAe
other, Sydney, q pleasure loving bohemian
The latter lives away from nome IN Ilea7ul eh'-S
fdleness, while the former assists his iatleI IN
his business. Sydney appeals 70 MS letLeF
% help him in his difficulties, but he refuses
and he returns home. He here learns mat ms
brother is about % be mari u 10 Miss Wood
cock TO whom Sydney had formerly paid ms
addresses hut had been rejected. Ills father
says he shall present her with the leNels tlAJ
formerly belonged 70 sydney mother, onl lAe
latter resolves that this shall not be the case,
and abstracts them and steals out into tue DARK
ness OF night.
CHAPTEEs ". AND V.-Hidiug in q wood with
his treasure, Sydney is attacked by poachers
and robbed. He is shortly afteTward found by
Spanish girl Salome Nelazo. and he Is be
friended by her father, who lives IN the neigh
borhoOd. He ultimately marTles Salomc 70
whom he pays his addresses under the assumed
name of Birmingham. Great Is his surprise
when be sees a paragraph in the paper announc-
tug that his father and brother had been klled
by being thrown out Of trap.
CHAPTER NI.-Sydney, sitting in the taproom
of the ale house, discovers from the newspapers
that his father and brother are dead-kllled IN
an accident-aud that he the outcast, IS now
sIr Sydney Carsland, owner Of coilierlss, man
Eions and enormous wealth. he Is young, rich,
titled, free. The vision of pleasure intoUcates
him. Already he has tired OF the gypsy maiden
he tad married. de could not introduce Sa-
lone to the world. He resolves to leave her-a
resolve he forthwith carries into execution.
CHAPTER NlI.-Sir Sydney Carsand enters
into possession Of his mansions and estates at
once He sups on chicken and champagne. The
will reveals that the late barOnet had left every
thing he possessed TO his son rederlc, out as
Frederic had no family the estates descend TO
his brother Sydney. After the funeral sydney
settles down 10 business. resumes his friendship
with Squire Woodcocks family, and strives TO
make himself particularly agreeable to his late
brothers fiaucee, Miss Adelaide WoOdcock.
The gossips drew but one inference-that they
had been In love oil along.
lend OF PROLOGUE
TIE SToRY.-CHAPTERs / and II-Salome
Darlington, or the white Gypsy" as she is
called is introduced. She is a pit brow girl
The date is twenty years after the prologue.
During a holiday in the woods she meets with q
gentleman, Mr. Wilfred Cunliffe, and an &C
quaintance springs up between them.
CHAPTERS III. AND IN.-Sir Sydney Carsland
and his wife, with their daughter, COrdelia, have
returned to Carsland Hall. He has been emf
nently successful in the world since his mar
riags with Squire Woodcock's daughter, but the
memory of his marriage with the Ripsy's daugh-
ter haunts him. for he knows that his present
wife is no wife and his daughter is Legitimate.
He encourages the attention Of Mr.. Paul Mere
dith his ward, and the heir to a large fortune
and noble title. Cordelia Is secretly attached to
him, and on one occasion he is about to declare
his love for her, but interruption takes place.
The next chapter reverts to SalOme Birmingham
and Mr.. Wilfred Cunliffe. The pair have met
again, but she objects to continue their &c
uuaintance, as he declines to meet her except
in secret. He says he has an explanation, but
he declines to give it her at present, and they
part.