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WHEN POVERTY ENTERS THE DOOR. To love and hate in the same breath, it is as cruel as a tragedy. Leon and Verna Dalrymple knew all that subtle pain as they faced each other in the cold, gray light of …
SIXTEEN YEARS LATER. “Sister Jessie, I am so hungry. Please give me some bread!” sobbed the pleading voice of a little child, clinging to the skirts of the young house mother, a dark-eyed girl of six…
A YOUNG GIRL’S FIRST THOUGHT. Madame Barto’s ideas of a parlormaid seemed rather confused, for her gloomy little brick house had no occupants save herself and Jessie, and before business hours in the…
THE WINNING OF A HEART. Jessie set some very bad stitches in madame’s ruffling the next half hour, for her slender fingers trembled with the quick beating of her heart. She had had her shy dreams of …
THE FIRST KISS. Pale and trembling from her fright, Jessie leaned against the wall when Frank Laurier returned to her, jaunty and debonair, saying lightly: “I have pitched the bold fellow down the st…
FATE’S DECREE. If Jessie had turned her fair head to look back as she drove off so triumphantly with her handsome escort, she would have seen Carey Doyle scrambling up from the gutter where he had la…
THE BEAUTIFUL RIVALS. When the beautiful brunette in her drive through the park met Jessie Lyndon riding by the side of Frank Laurier, all the blood in her veins seemed momentarily to turn to ice in …
“SHE SHALL BE MINE?” With an evil smile on his face, Carey Doyle whipped up the horse and drove swiftly back to his aunt’s house, his eyes gloating on the pale, unconscious beauty of Jessie’s face as…
AN HOUR TO BE REMEMBERED. The Fifth Avenue mansion where Mrs. Dalrymple lived was little less than a palace as she was little less than a princess, if royal beauty, royal wealth, and almost royal sta…
THE ENDING OF HER LOVE DREAM. Laurier, startled, dismayed, and angered by Jessie’s sensational entrance, had spoken to her more harshly and hastily than if he had taken second thought. The hateful, m…
