THE LOCKET: A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK.
BYGEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF "THE BRIDAL CHAMBER," "JACK HAROLD," "DASHINGTON," AND ONE HUNDRED OTHER POPULAR TALES.
NEW YORK:
P. F. HARRIS, PUBLISHER,
298 BROADWAY.
1855.ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1855, BY P. F. HARRIS, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
Dedication.
TO
GEORGE LAW,
TO WHOM THE EYES OF THE WHOLE AMERICAN PEOPLE NOW TURN
AS THEIR
SOLE PRESERVER
FROM UNIVERSAL POLITICAL CORRUPTION:
TO WHOM
WE LOOK FOR SALVATION FROM
THE ACCURSED EFFECTS OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE,
This
Work
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS FRIEND AND FELLOW-CITIZEN,
THE AUTHOR.
GIRARD HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA, June, 1855.PREFACE
THIS work is the commencement of a series which may possibly extend through five or six successive tales, each one complete in itself, but forming a link in a chain of narration. The Author hopes and thinks that this story, founded on fact, will prove acceptable to all his old readers and friends. The interest of the plot will increase towards the denouement; and I humbly flatter myself that the entire Romance constitutes a literary performance of which no man need be ashamed.
G. T.
PHILADELPHIA, June, 1855.