Under False Pretences. Sergeant Adeline
PERCIVAL'S OWN WAY.
"THE END CROWNS ALL, AND THAT IS YET TO COME."
CHAPTER I.
Prologue to the Story.
In Two Parts.
I.
It was in the year 1854 that an English gentleman named Edward Luttrell took up his abode in a white-walled, green-shuttered villa on the slopes of the western Apennines. He was accompanied by his wife (a Scotchwoman and an heiress),