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PLAYING WITH FIRE. The young men nodded gayly at each other, then Ernest Noel passed into the house. “How radiant you look, ma belle!” he exclaimed enviously. Cora’s red lips parted over her pearly t…
A DESPERATE DEED. Cora Ellyson sat speechless by the side of Ernest Noel for several minutes as the sleigh rushed on through the whirling snowflakes. Her face was as white as the snowflakes, her very…
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Two weeks rolled around very quickly and brought Cora’s wedding day again. It would be somewhat different from the one that had been so tragically interrupted the month be…
“LOVE, I WILL LOVE YOU EVER!” Among the passengers on a steamer homeward bound from England to America were a man and his daughter who attracted much admiring attention from all the other passengers.…
AN ANSWERED PRAYER. The sweet voice died away in lingering echoes over the waters, the mandolin ceased its plaintive chords, and Jessie sat down with a low sigh by her father’s side, and leaned her h…
AN OCEAN TRAGEDY. Of the horrors that attended the burning of the Atlanta in mid-ocean that September night none could clearly tell, not even the survivors, so sudden had been the alarm, so terrible…
“I LOVED HER ALWAYS.” Leon Lyndon knew that his time was short. The last words must be hurried, and he continued: “If you escape this horror, Jessie, go to New York to Mrs. Dalrymple. Tell her you ar…
WAS A MIRACLE WROUGHT? The sea was unusually calm and smooth that morning. A skillful swimmer could make good headway against the tide. Laurier was an athlete, and swimming lightly and strongly after…
ALONE TOGETHER. Laurier watched Jessie’s great, dark eyes widen and darken with feeling, and guessed the thought in her mind before she murmured in anguish: “Papa!” He answered tenderly: “Afloat some…
A HEART OF SYMPATHY. It was a stroke of the rarest good fortune that Laurier and Jessie should be saved by a homeward-bound steamer—the Scythia , going straight to New York. What a sensation they cre…
