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Dickens' plot for Drood: Fourth Installment (Chapters XIII-XVI)

Transcribed by W. Robertson Nicoll


	W. Robertson Nicoll transcribed Dickens' working notes for
	Drood thus: 

		   NOTES FOR THE NOVEL

	   (MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.--NO. IV.)

		      CHAPTER XIII
		   BOTH AT THEIR BEST

  The Last Interview
		    And Parting.


		     CHAPTER XIV
	  WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?
		
	   How each passes the day.                
			      Neville.
	Watch and shirt pin   Edwin.      Watch to the
      all Edwin's jewellery.  Jasper.      Jewellers.
    'And so he goes up the Postern Stair.'                
					  Storms of wind.

		    CHAPTER XV
		     IMPEACHED
		
  Neville away cart.  Pursued and brought back.
  Mr. Grewgious's communication:
			And his scene with Jasper.


		    CHAPTER XVI
		      DEVOTED

  Jasper's artful use of the communication on his recovery.
  Closterham Weir, Mr. Crisparkle, and the watch and the pin.
  Jasper's artful turn.
    The DEAN.  Neville cast out.
       Jasper's Diary 'I devote myself to his destruction.'


  Edwin and Rosa for the last time?  DONE ALREADY.
       
  




  Kinfederel.




  Edwin disappears.
  THE MYSTERY.  DONE ALREADY.


(End.)