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A FAMILIAR SONG. From a cottage window, embowered in azure morning glories, a girl’s sweet voice sang blithely: “My heart with joy would thrill if you loved me, ’Twould give this life of mine its fi…
THE ROSY EMBLEM. Berry cried out in delight as she pressed the flowers to her face: “Oh, how sweet, how lovely! Who sent me the roses, Jimmy Dolan?” “Gent from up ter de hall, sure, but I dunno his n…
SWEETHEARTS. Remember him? ah! Berry could have laughed aloud at the tender question. She knew that she could never forget his glance and smile of this morning her whole life long. Yet, with her pret…
LEGITIMATE GAME. To the gay young gallant, Berry’s anger only made her more charming. She had seemed too easy a prize before, for he had read her heart very quickly by the light of former experiences…
THE TURNING POINT. As long as he lived, Charley Bonair would never forget that tragic moment. All at once, the fumes of wine passed from his brain, and left him sober and horrified, the heart sinking…
THE BOOK OF FATE. “Hello! What is this? Looks romantic!” cried a gay, female voice, as the owner ran forward, followed by several curious people, who united in concern for the drenched and hapless st…
A SUSPECTED RIVAL. “You may laugh at me for a superstitious girl, mamma,” declared beautiful Rosalind Montague, “but I shall always believe that postponements in love are ill-omened. Ever since the n…
LOVED AND HATED. “Time put his sickles in among the days,” and the weeks slipped away and brought winter weather. But long before the first snow, Charley Bonair had gone away from New Market, ostensi…
BLUE EYES AND BROWN. Senator Bonair’s palatial home in the magnificent city of San Francisco was ablaze with light and gayety that night. Though the millionaire owner himself was absent, in attendanc…
A TRAGEDY OF LOVE. One easily guesses that “A Wayside Flower” was the story of a young girl—beautiful, but poor. The rich hero’s fancy turned from his betrothed, the proud beauty, his equal in wealth…
