This September 1875 issue of The Argos serializes "A Secret of the Sea" by the author of "In the Dead of Night." Chapter XV follows Sir Thomas Dudgeon's resistance to returning to London for medical consultation—he secretly discards prescribed draughts while his suspicious wife arranges his appointment with Sir Knox Timpany. When a telegram summons her to her ailing sister Caroline, Sir Thomas welcomes the freedom from supervision.
Eleanor Lloyd discovers that Gerald (secretly Gerald Warburton, heir to her father's wealth, posing as secretary John Pomeroy) has confessed his deception. Though hurt, she forgives him, but Gerald maintains cold distance, planning to reveal his identity only after his associate Ambrose Murray searches Wales for evidence. Eleanor resolves to leave Stammars, accepting a position at Miss Mulhouse's Home for Destitute Girls in East London, seeking meaningful work over frivolous society life. Sir Thomas protests her departure while Lady Dudgeon dismisses the scheme as temporary madness.
Chapter XXXVI begins: Matthew Kelvin's illness fluctuates between improvement and severe relapse.
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