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A BREAKING HEART. Madame Barto did not expect any customers the next morning; it was so still, so dark and lowering after the night’s storm, but at ten o’clock the bell clanged loudly and she admitte…
AN EVIL OMEN. Thursday morning dawned fair and sunny with all traces of Tuesday night’s storm swept away—the streets clean, the skies blue, the air crisply cold—the day set for Jessie Lyndon’s funera…
FORSAKEN AT THE ALTAR. Mrs. Dalrymple, throwing back her heavy veil for air, gasped with surprise and wonder. She could not have dreamed of seeing Frank Laurier at the funeral services at the Van Dor…
WAVES OF MEMORY. When Laurier and Noel had both been taken away, the man whose bicycle had been the cause of their calamity stood alone among the curious onlookers gazing somewhat ruefully at the rui…
FORGETFULNESS, THE GREAT PANACEA. A lonely life and much brooding inclines the mind to strange aspects. Leon Dalrymple’s thoughts dwelt persistently on the dead girl—his divorced wife’s adopted daugh…
WHEN A MAN HATES. Rapid thoughts were revolving in his mind: “I will take her far away from New York, my precious daughter, and her mother shall never know that she is not lying in the old vault amon…
DALRYMPLE’S SECRET. Jessie’s large, soft, dark eyes turned on her father’s face with a look that shook his soul, they were so like other eyes he had once loved. She cried pleadingly: “No, no, for I h…
LAURIER’S ATONEMENT. When two people are of the same mind that certain subjects are painful, they are not apt to recall them to each other’s memory. Leon Lyndon, as he chose to call himself, left New…
THE NEW WINE OF LOVE. Cora Ellyson had, indeed, refused her lover’s request. Ernest Noel had gauged her quite correctly in asserting that she would be unwilling to be married simply, without the pomp…
WOULD THE OLD LOVE RETURN? December snows lay deep upon the ground when Laurier left the hospital two weeks after the fateful accident that had postponed his wedding. His first visit was to Cora. Hav…
