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THE HAPPY MEETING. But April had succeeded March before Berry was fairly convalescent. A long and weary month she had lain upon that bed of pain before life struggled back for certain into her weary,…
THEIR PLIGHTED VOWS. It was enough to blow out the faint spark of Berry’s life, the sudden shock of seeing her lover, and hearing those startling words from his lips, but, happily, “joy never kills.”…
ALL FOR LOVE. Charley Bonair was a man of action. Having resolved to marry Berenice Vining, he knew that he would have to encounter strong family opposition, and foreboded that every possible means w…
THE NEXT DAY. Miss Montague’s headache lasted till the afternoon of the next day, and she denied herself to every one but her maid, keeping quiet, as she said, to overcome the attack, but in reality …
A FAIR BRIDE. Charley Bonair had indeed gone away from his sisters in an angry mood, stung by their reproaches and embittered by their sharp abuse of his wife, the scheming nobody, as they did not sc…
BRIBING A BRIDE. Mrs. Cline’s startling announcement was like a bolt of lightning falling from a clear sky. The young bride uttered one horrified cry, then fell back in her chair, half fainting, her …
FORGETTING THE WORLD. The time is late summer on the bleak coast of Cornwall, a year and three months since the day when Charley Bonair walked out of the courtroom in San Francisco, cleared of the ch…
TURN OF THE TIDE. The lawsuit had dragged on interminably for six months, and it seemed as if a decision would never be reached, so that Charley was getting very poor, indeed, and very impatient, alt…
A FRIEND INDEED. The loquacious maid who had been pouring out her story without a single period, now paused for breath, and Berry stared at her with wide, wondering brown eyes. The name of the sick A…
A GENEROUS OFFER. Poor Charley, returning next day from London, depressed and discouraged at not seeing his father, was dazed to find his sweet wife gone, and to get her letter of explanation. But af…
