Secret Service / Being the Happenings of a Night in Richmond in the Spring of 1865
by William Gillette Cyrus Townsend Brady
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Being the Happenings of a Night in Richmond in the Spring of 1865. A novelisation of the play by William Gillette first published in 1912.
Chapters (22)
- SECRET SERVICE
- CHAPTER I THE BATTERY PASSES
- CHAPTER II A COMMISSION FROM THE PRESIDENT
- CHAPTER III ORDERS TO CAPTAIN THORNE
- CHAPTER IV MISS MITFORD’S INTERVENTION
- CHAPTER V THE UNFAITHFUL SERVANT
- CHAPTER VI THE CONFIDENCE OF EDITH VARNEY
- CHAPTER VII WILFRED WRITES A LETTER
- CHAPTER VIII EDITH IS FORCED TO PLAY THE GAME
- CHAPTER IX THE SHOT THAT KILLED
- CHAPTER X CAROLINE MITFORD WRITES A DESPATCH
- CHAPTER XI MR. ARRELSFORD AGAIN INTERPOSES
- CHAPTER XII THORNE TAKES CHARGE OF THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE
- CHAPTER XIII THE TABLES ARE TURNED
- CHAPTER XIV THE CALL OF THE KEY
- CHAPTER XV LOVE AND DUTY AT THE TOUCH
- CHAPTER XVI THE TUMULT IN HUMAN HEARTS
- CHAPTER XVII WILFRED PLAYS THE MAN
- CHAPTER XVIII CAPTAIN THORNE JUSTIFIES HIMSELF
- CHAPTER XIX THE DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL
- CHAPTER XX THE LAST REPRIEVE
- AFTERWORD
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