Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance

Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance is novel written by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller who is remembered for her romantic fiction work A Dreadful Temptation.  Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is the pen name of the American female novelist Mittie Frances Clark Point who has written more than 80 novels including The Bride of the Tomb & Queenie's Terrible Secret , She loved a handsome actor , They Looked and Loved, Guy Kenmore's Wife & The Rose and the Lily, The Fatal Birthday, and Little Golden's Daughter .
Excerpts:
"Dead!"
Leslie Noble reels backward, stunned by the shuddering horror of that one word—"Dead!" The stiff, girlish characters of the open letter in his hand waver up and down before his dazed vision, so that he can scarcely read the pathetic words, so pathetic now when the little hand that penned them lies cold in death.
"Dear Leslie," it says, "when you come to bid me good-bye in the morning I shall be dead. That is best. You see, I did not know till to-night my sad story, and that you did not love me. Poor mamma was wrong to bind you so. I am very sorry, Leslie. There is nothing I can do but die."
There is no signature to the sad little letter—none—but they have taken it from the hand of his girl-wife, found dead in her bed this morning—his bride of two days agone.