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HOW COULD HE LOSE HER THUS? The days flew fast and to-morrow their eventful journey would be over—they would land at New York. More than one heart was secretly sorry, grieving to lose sight of one sw…
THE HEART OF A LOVER. The stars shone on, the wind sighed, the sea moaned, but Jessie’s heart almost stopped still. The moment she had dreaded had come at last. He was asking her about that other Jes…
THE BLACKMAILER. Madame Barto’s doorbell clanged impatiently twice, and then a deeply veiled young lady was admitted, and shown to the small parlor where madame received her callers. She glanced arou…
“A BREAKING HEART,” SHE SAID. Mrs. Dalrymple had never felt like a well woman since the day she kissed her daughter’s dead face and turned away from the old family vault, feeling that her last hope i…
“BILLING AND COOING WILL WAIT.” So it happened that on the day when the Scythia came into port—the same day that Cora Ellyson went to Madame Barto’s at Carey Doyle’s command—Mrs. Dalrymple lay so il…
“HOW WAS IT THAT LOVE DIED?” “Let us go to your aunt now, Cora,” repeated Frank impatiently, and though her anger blazed at his coldness, she dared not give rein to it lest she lose him forever. With…
STARTLING NEWS. Jessie Lyndon had been strong enough to send her lover from her because he was bound to another, but she was not brave enough to meet him daily in the intimate association of her moth…
LOVE REKINDLED. Cora had been listening outside the door, and she darted in now, exclaiming: “I was just coming in when I heard you call for me, dear aunt.” She gazed at Carey Doyle as if he had been…
HEARTS UNITED. Then she seized a pen and wrote falteringly: “Leon, she has never come home to me, so I read your letter, hoping to find some clew to my lost Darling. “I have been seeking her vainly f…
DEEDS OF KINDNESS. When Dalrymple tore himself away at last to prosecute the search for his daughter, it occurred to him to seek her at the home of Mrs. Godfrey, the aunt of his little nephews, Willi…
