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LESLIE'S LOYALTY
By CHARLES GARVICE
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=Quo Vadis= (New Illustrated Edition) =By Henryk Sienkiewicz=
1--Queen Bess By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
2--Ruby's Reward By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
7--Two Keys By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
12--Edrie's Legacy By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
44--That Dowdy By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
55--Thrice Wedded By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
66--Witch Hazel By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
77--Tina By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
88--Virgie's Inheritance By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
99--Audrey's Recompense By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
111--Faithful Shirley By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
122--Grazia's Mistake By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
133--Max By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
144--Dorothy's Jewels By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
155--Nameless Dell By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
166--The Masked Bridal By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
177--A True Aristocrat By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
188--Dorothy Arnold's Escape By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
199--Geoffrey's Victory By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
210--Wild Oats By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
219--Lost, A Pearle By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
222--The Lily of Mordaunt By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
233--Nora By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
244--A Hoiden's Conquest By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
255--The Little Marplot By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
266--The Welfleet Mystery By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
277--Brownie's Triumph By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
282--The Forsaken Bride By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
288--Sibyl's Influence By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
291--A Mysterious Wedding Ring By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
299--Little Miss Whirlwind By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
311--Wedded by Fate By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
339--His Heart's Queen By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
351--The Churchyard Betrothal By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
362--Stella Rosevelt By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
372--A Girl in a Thousand By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
373--A Thorn Among Roses By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
Sequel to "A Girl in a Thousand"
382--Mona By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
391--Marguerite's Heritage By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
399--Betsey's Transformation By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
407--Esther, the Fright By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
415--Trixy By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
419--The Other Woman By Charles Garvice
433--Winifred's Sacrifice By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
440--Edna's Secret Marriage By Charles Garvice
451--Helen's Victory By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
458--When Love Meets Love By Charles Garvice
476--Earle Wayne's Nobility By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
511--The Golden Key By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
512--A Heritage of Love By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
Sequel to "The Golden Key"
519--The Magic Cameo By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
520--The Heatherford Fortune By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
Sequel to "The Magic Cameo"
531--Better Than Life By Charles Garvice
537--A Life's Mistake By Charles Garvice
542--Once in a Life By Charles Garvice
548--'Twas Love's Fault By Charles Garvice
553--Queen Kate By Charles Garvice
554--Step by Step By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
555--Put to the Test By Ida Reade Allen
556--With Love's Aid By Wenona Gilman
557--In Cupid's Chains By Charles Garvice
558--A Plunge Into the Unknown By Richard Marsh
559--The Love That Was Cursed By Geraldine Fleming
560--The Thorns of Regret By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
561--The Outcast of the Family By Charles Garvice
562--A Forced Promise By Ida Reade Allen
563--The Old Homestead By Denman Thompson
564--Love's First Kiss By Emma Garrison Jones
565--Just a Girl By Charles Garvice
566--In Love's Springtime By Laura Jean Libbey
567--Trixie's Honor By Geraldine Fleming
568--Hearts and Dollars By Ida Reade Allen
569--By Devious Ways By Charles Garvice
570--Her Heart's Unbidden Guest By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
571--Two Wild Girls By Mrs. Charlotte May Kingsley
572--Amid Scarlet Roses By Emma Garrison Jones
573--Heart for Heart By Charles Garvice
574--The Fugitive Bride By Mary E. Bryan
575--A Blue Grass Heroine By Ida Reade Allen
576--The Yellow Face By Fred M. White
577--The Story of a Passion By Charles Garvice
579--The Curse of Beauty By Geraldine Fleming
580--The Great Awakening By E. Phillips Oppenheim
581--A Modern Juliet By Charles Garvice
582--Virgie Talcott's Mission By Lucy M. Russell
583--His Greatest Sacrifice; or, Manch By Mary E. Bryan
584--Mabel's Fate By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
585--The Ape and the Diamond By Richard Marsh
586--Nell, of Shorne Mills By Charles Garvice
587--Katherine's Two Suitors By Geraldine Fleming
588--The Crime of Love By Barbara Howard
589--His Father's Crime By E. Phillips Oppenheim
590--What Was She to Him? By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
591--A Heritage of Hate By Charles Garvice
592--Ida Chaloner's Heart By Lucy Randall Comfort
593--Love Will Find the Way By Wenona Gilman
594--A Case of Identity By Richard Marsh
595--The Shadow of Her Life By Charles Garvice
596--Slighted Love By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
597--Her Fatal Gift By Geraldine Fleming
598--His Wife's Friend By Mary E. Bryan
599--At Love's Cost By Charles Garvice
600--St. Elmo By Augusta J. Evans
601--The Fate of the Plotter By Louis Tracy
602--Married in Error By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
603--Love and Jealousy By Lucy Randall Comfort
604--Only a Working Girl By Geraldine Fleming
605--Love, the Tyrant By Charles Garvice
606--Mabel's Sacrifice By Charlotte M. Stanley
608--Love is Love Forevermore By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
609--John Elliott's Flirtation By Lucy May Russell
610--With All Her Heart By Charles Garvice
611--Is Love Worth While? By Geraldine Fleming
612--Her Husband's Other Wife By Emma Garrison Jones
613--Philip Bennion's Death By Richard Marsh
614--Little Phillis' Lover By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
615--Maida By Charles Garvice
617--As a Man Lives By E. Phillips Oppenheim
618--The Tide of Fate By Wenona Gilman
619--The Cardinal Moth By Fred M. White
620--Marcia Drayton By Charles Garvice
621--Lynette's Wedding By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
622--His Madcap Sweetheart By Emma Garrison Jones
623--Love at the Loom By Geraldine Fleming
624--A Bachelor Girl By Lucy May Russell
625--Kyra's Fate By Charles Garvice
626--The Joss By Richard Marsh
627--My Little Love By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
628--A Daughter of the Marionis By E. Phillips Oppenheim
629--The Lady of Beaufort Park By Wenona Gilman
630--The Verdict of the Heart By Charles Garvice
631--A Love Concealed By Emma Garrison Jones
633--The Strange Disappearance of Lady Delia By Louis Tracy
634--Love's Golden Spell By Geraldine Fleming
635--A Coronet of Shame By Charles Garvice
636--Sinned Against By Mary E. Bryan
637--If It Were True! By Wenona Gilman
638--A Golden Barrier By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
639--A Hateful Bondage By Barbara Howard
640--A Girl of Spirit By Charles Garvice
641--Master of Men By E. Phillips Oppenheim
642--A Fair Enchantress By Ida Reade Allen
643--The Power of Love By Geraldine Fleming
644--No Time for Penitence By Wenona Gilman
645--A Jest of Fate By Charles Garvice
646--Her Sister's Secret By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
647--Bitterly Atoned By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
648--Gertrude Elliott's Crucible By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
649--The Corner House By Fred M. White
650--Diana's Destiny By Charles Garvice
651--Love's Clouded Dawn By Wenona Gilman
652--Little Vixen By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
653--Her Heart's Challenge By Barbara Howard
654--Vivian's Love Story By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
655--Linked by Fate By Charles Garvice
656--Hearts of Stone By Geraldine Fleming
657--In the Service of Love By Richard Marsh
658--Love's Devious Course By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
659--Told in the Twilight By Ida Reade Allen
660--The Mills of the Gods By Wenona Gilman
661--The Man of the Hour By Sir William Magnay
662--A Little Barbarian By Charlotte Kingsley
663--Creatures of Destiny By Charles Garvice
664--A Southern Princess By Emma Garrison Jones
666--A Fateful Promise By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
667--The Goddess--A Demon By Richard Marsh
668--From Tears to Smiles By Ida Reade Allen
670--Better Than Riches By Wenona Gilman
671--When Love Is Young By Charles Garvice
672--Craven Fortune By Fred M. White
673--Her Life's Burden By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
674--The Heart of Hetta By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
675--The Breath of Slander By Ida Reade Allen
676--My Lady Beth By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
677--The Wooing of Esther Gray By Louis Tracy
678--The Shadow Between Them By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
679--Gold in the Gutter By Charles Garvice
680--Master of Her Fate By Geraldine Fleming
681--In Full Cry By Richard Marsh
682--My Pretty Maid By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
683--An Unhappy Bargain By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
684--Her Enduring Love By Ida Reade Allen
685--India's Punishment By Laura Jean Libbey
686--The Castle of the Shadows By Mrs. C. N. Williamson
687--My Own Sweetheart By Wenona Gilman
688--Only a Kiss By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
689--Lola Dunbar's Crime By Barbara Howard
690--Ruth, the Outcast By Mrs. Mary E. Bryan
691--Her Dearest Love By Geraldine Fleming
692--The Man of Millions By Ida Reade Allen
693--For Another's Fault By Charlotte M. Stanley
694--The Belle of Saratoga By Lucy Randall Comfort
695--The Mystery of the Unicorn By Sir William Magnay
696--The Bride's Opals By Emma Garrison Jones
697--One of Life's Roses By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
698--The Battle of Hearts By Geraldine Fleming
700--In Wolf's Clothing By Charles Garvice
701--A Lost Sweetheart By Ida Reade Allen
702--The Stronger Passion By Mrs. Lillian R. Drayton
703--Mr. Marx's Secret By E. Phillips Oppenheim
704--Had She Loved Him Less! By Laura Jean Libbey
705--The Adventure of Princess Sylvia By Mrs. C. N. Williamson
706--In Love's Paradise By Charlotte M. Stanley
707--At Another's Bidding By Ida Reade Allen
708--Sold for Gold By Geraldine Fleming
710--Ridgeway of Montana By William MacLeod Raine
711--Taken by Storm By Emma Garrison Jones
712--Love and a Lie By Charles Garvice
713--Barriers of Stone By Wenona Gilman
714--Ethel's Secret By Charlotte M. Stanley
715--Amber, the Adopted By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
716--No Man's Wife By Ida Reade Allen
717--Wild and Willful By Lucy Randall Comfort
718--When We Two Parted By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
719--Love's Earnest Prayer By Geraldine Fleming
720--The Price of a Kiss By Laura Jean Libbey
721--A Girl from the South By Charles Garvice
722--A Freak of Fate By Emma Garrison Jones
723--A Golden Sorrow By Charlotte M. Stanley
724--Norma's Black Fortune By Ida Reade Allen
725--The Thoroughbred By Edith MacVane
726--Diana's Peril By Dorothy Hall
727--His Willing Slave By Lillian R. Drayton
728--Her Share of Sorrow By Wenona Gilman
729--Loved at Last By Geraldine Fleming
730--John Hungerford's Redemption By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
731--His Two Loves By Ida Reade Allen
732--Eric Braddon's Love By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
733--Garrison's Finish By W. B. M. Ferguson
734--Sylvia, the Forsaken By Charlotte M. Stanley
735--Married for Money By Lucy Randall Comfort
736--Married in Haste By Wenona Gilman
737--At Her Father's Bidding By Geraldine Fleming
738--The Power of Gold By Ida Reade Allen
739--The Strength of Love By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
740--A Soul Laid Bare By J. K. Egerton
741--The Fatal Ruby By Charles Garvice
742--A Strange Wooing By Richard Marsh
743--A Lost Love By Wenona Gilman
744--A Useless Sacrifice By Emma Garrison Jones
745--A Will of Her Own By Ida Reade Allen
746--That Girl Named Hazel By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
747--For a Flirt's Love By Geraldine Fleming
748--The World's Great Snare By E. Phillips Oppenheim
749--The Heart of a Maid By Charles Garvice
750--Driven from Home By Wenona Gilman
751--The Gypsy's Warning By Emma Garrison Jones
752--Without Name or Wealth By Ida Reade Allen
753--Loyal Unto Death By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
754--His Lost Heritage By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
755--Her Priceless Love By Geraldine Fleming
756--Leola's Heart By Charlotte M. Stanley
757--Dare-devil Betty By Evelyn Malcolm
758--The Woman in It By Charles Garvice
759--They Met by Chance By Ida Reade Allen
760--Love Conquers Pride By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
761--A Reckless Promise By Emma Garrison Jones
762--The Rose of Yesterday By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
763--The Other Girl's Lover By Lillian R. Drayton
764--His Unbounded Faith By Charlotte M. Stanley
765--When Love Speaks By Evelyn Malcolm
766--The Man She Hated By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
767--No One to Help Her By Ida Reade Allen
768--Claire's Love-Life By Lucy Randall Comfort
769--Love's Harvest By Adelaide Fox Robinson
770--A Queen of Song By Geraldine Fleming
771--Nan Haggard's Confession By Mary E. Bryan
772--A Married Flirt By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
773--The Thorns of Love By Evelyn Malcolm
774--Love in a Snare By Charles Garvice
775--My Love Kitty By Charles Garvice
776--That Strange Girl By Charles Garvice
777--Nellie By Charles Garvice
778--Miss Estcourt; or, Olive By Charles Garvice
779--A Virginia Goddess By Ida Reade Allen
780--The Love He Sought By Lillian R. Drayton
781--Falsely Accused By Geraldine Fleming
782--His First Sweetheart By Lucy Randall Comfort
783--All for Love By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
784--What Love Can Cost By Evelyn Malcolm
785--Lady Gay's Martyrdom By Charlotte May Kingsley
786--His Good Angel By Emma Garrison Jones
787--A Bartered Soul By Adelaide Fox Robinson
788--In Love's Shadows By Ida Reade Allen
789--A Love Worth Winning By Geraldine Fleming
790--The Fatal Kiss By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
791--A Lover Scorned By Lucy Randall Comfort
792--After Many Days By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
793--An Innocent Outlaw By William Wallace Cook
794--The Arm of the Law By Evelyn Malcolm
795--The Reluctant Queen By J. Kenilworth Egerton
796--The Cost of Pride By Lillian R. Drayton
797--What Love Made Her By Geraldine Fleming
798--Brave Heart By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
799--Between Good and Evil By Charlotte M. Stanley
800--Caught in Love's Net By Ida Reade Allen
801--Love is a Mystery By Adelaide Fox Robinson
802--The Glitter of Jewels By J. Kenilworth Egerton
803--The Game of Life By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
804--A Dreadful Legacy By Geraldine Fleming
805--Rogers, of Butte By William Wallace Cook
806--The Haunting Past By Evelyn Malcolm
807--The Love That Would Not Die By Ida Reade Allen
808--The Serpent and the Dove By Charlotte May Kingsley
809--Through the Shadows By Adelaide Fox Robinson
810--Her Kingdom By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
811--When Dark Clouds Gather By Geraldine Fleming
812--Her Fateful Choice By Charlotte M. Stanley
813--Sorely Tried By Emma Garrison Jones
814--Far Above Price By Evelyn Malcolm
815--Bitter Sweet By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
816--A Clouded Life By Ida Reade Allen
817--When Fate Decrees By Adelaide Fox Robinson
818--The Girl Who Was True By Charles Garvice
819--Where Love is Sent By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
820--The Pride of My Heart By Laura Jean Libbey
821--The Girl in Red By Evelyn Malcolm
822--Why Did She Shun Him? By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
823--Between Love and Conscience By Charlotte M. Stanley
824--Spectres of the Past By Ida Reade Allen
825--The Hearts of the Mighty By Adelaide Fox Robinson
826--The Irony of Love By Charles Garvice
827--At Arms With Fate By Charlotte May Kingsley
828--Love's Young Dream By Laura Jean Libbey
829--Her Golden Secret By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
830--The Stolen Bride By Evelyn Malcolm
831--Love's Rugged Pathway By Ida Reade Allen
832--A Love Rejected--A Love Won By Geraldine Fleming
833--Her Life's Dark Cloud By Lillian R. Drayton
834--A Hero for Love's Sake By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
835--When the Heart Hungers By Charlotte M. Stanley
836--Love Given in Vain By Adelaide Fox Robinson
837--The Web of Life By Ida Reade Allen
838--Love Surely Triumphs By Charlotte May Kingsley
839--The Lovely Constance By Laura Jean Libbey
840--On a Sea of Sorrow By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
841--Her Hated Husband By Evelyn Malcolm
842--When Hearts Beat True By Geraldine Fleming
843--WO2 By Maurice Drake
844--Too Quickly Judged By Ida Reade Allen
845--For Her Husband's Love By Charlotte May Stanley
846--The Fatal Rose By Adelaide Fox Robinson
847--The Love That Prevailed By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
848--Just an Angel By Lillian R. Drayton
849--Stronger Than Fate By Emma Garrison Jones
850--A Life's Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
851--From Dreams to Waking By Charlotte M. Kingsley
852--A Barrier Between Them By Evelyn Malcolm
853--His Love for Her By Geraldine Fleming
854--A Changeling's Love By Ida Reade Allen
855--Could He Have Known! By Charlotte May Stanley
856--Loved in Vain By Adelaide Fox Robinson
857--The Fault of One By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
858--Her Life's Desire By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
859--A Wife Yet no Wife By Lillian R. Drayton
860--Her Twentieth Guest By Emma Garrison Jones
861--The Love Knot By Charlotte M. Kingsley
862--Tricked into Marriage By Evelyn Malcolm
863--The Spell She Wove By Geraldine Fleming
864--The Mistress of the Farm By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
865--Chained to a Villain By Ida Reade Allen
866--No Mother to Guide Her By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
To be published during January, 1914.
867--His Heritage By W. B. M. Ferguson
868--All Lost But Love By Emma Garrison Jones
869--With Heart Bowed Down By Charlotte May Kingsley
870--Her Slave Forever By Evelyn Malcolm
To be published during February, 1914.
871--To Love and Not be Loved By Ida Reade Allen
872--My Pretty Jane By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
873--She Scoffed at Love By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
874--The Woman Without a Heart By Emma Garrison Jones
To be published during March, 1914.
875--Shall We Forgive Her? By Charlotte May Kingsley
876--A Sad Coquette By Evelyn Malcolm
877--The Curse of Wealth By Ida Reade Allen
878--Long Since Forgiven By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
To be published during April, 1914.
879--Life's Richest Jewel By Adelaide Fox Robinson
880--Leila Vane's Burden By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
881--Face to Face With Love By Lillian R. Drayton
882--Margery, the Pearl By Emma Garrison Jones
883--Love's Keen Eyes By Charlotte May Kingsley
To be published during May, 1914.
884--Misjudged By Evelyn Malcolm
885--What True Love Is By Ida Reade Allen
886--A Well Kept Secret By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
887--The Survivor By E. Phillips Oppenheim
To be published during June, 1914.
888--Light of His Heart By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
889--Bound by Gratitude By Lillian R. Drayton
890--Against Love's Rules By Emma Garrison Jones
891--Alone With Her Sorrow By Charlotte May Kingsley
To be published during July, 1914.
892--When the Heart is Bitter By Evelyn Malcolm
893--Only Love's Fancy By Ida Reade Allen
894--The Wife He Chose By Mrs. E. Burke Collins
895--Love and Louisa By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
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3--The Love of Violet Lee By Julia Edwards
4--For a Woman's Honor By Bertha M. Clay
5--The Senator's Favorite By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
6--The Midnight Marriage By A. M. Douglas
8--Beautiful But Poor By Julia Edwards
9--The Virginia Heiress By May Agnes Fleming
10--Little Sunshine By Francis S. Smith
11--The Gipsy's Daughter By Bertha M. Clay
13--The Little Widow By Julia Edwards
14--Violet Lisle By Bertha M. Clay
15--Dr. Jack By St. George Rathborne
16--The Fatal Card By Haddon Chambers and B. C. Stephenson
17--Leslie's Loyalty By Charles Garvice
(His Love So True)
18--Dr. Jack's Wife By St. George Rathborne
19--Mr. Lake of Chicago By Harry DuBois Milman
21--A Heart's Idol By Bertha M. Clay
22--Elaine By Charles Garvice
23--Miss Pauline of New York By St. George Rathborne
24--A Wasted Love By Charles Garvice
(On Love's Altar)
25--Little Southern Beauty By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
26--Captain Tom By St. George Rathborne
27--Estelle's Millionaire Lover By Julia Edwards
28--Miss Caprice By St. George Rathborne
29--Theodora By Victorien Sardou
30--Baron Sam By St. George Rathborne
31--A Siren's Love By Robert Lee Tyler
32--The Blockade Runner By J. Perkins Tracy
33--Mrs. Bob By St. George Rathborne
34--Pretty Geraldine By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
35--The Great Mogul By St. George Rathborne
36--Fedora By Victorien Sardou
37--The Heart of Virginia By J. Perkins Tracy
38--The Nabob of Singapore By St. George Rathborne
39--The Colonel's Wife By Warren Edwards
40--Monsieur Bob By St. George Rathborne
41--Her Heart's Desire By Charles Garvice
(An Innocent Girl)
42--Another Woman's Husband By Bertha M. Clay
43--Little Coquette Bonnie By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
45--A Yale Man By Robert Lee Tyler
46--Off with the Old Love By Mrs. M. V. Victor
47--The Colonel by Brevet By St. George Rathborne
48--Another Man's Wife By Bertha M. Clay
49--None But the Brave By Robert Lee Tyler
50--Her Ransom By Charles Garvice
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51--The Price He Paid By E. Werner
52--Woman Against Woman By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
54--Cleopatra By Victorien Sardou
56--The Dispatch Bearer By Warren Edwards
58--Major Matterson of Kentucky By St. George Rathborne
59--Gladys Greye By Bertha M. Clay
61--La Tosca By Victorien Sardou
62--Stella Stirling By Julia Edwards
63--Lawyer Bell from Boston By Robert Lee Tyler
64--Dora Tenney By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
65--Won by the Sword By J. Perkins Tracy
67--Gismonda By Victorien Sardou
68--The Little Cuban Rebel By Edna Winfield
69--His Perfect Trust By Bertha M. Clay
70--Sydney By Charles Garvice
(A Wilful Young Woman)
71--The Spider's Web By St. George Rathborne
72--Wilful Winnie By Harriet Sherburne
73--The Marquis By Charles Garvice
74--The Cotton King By Sutton Vane
75--Under Fire By T. P. James
76--Mavourneen From the celebrated play
78--The Yankee Champion By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
79--Out of the Past By Charles Garvice
(Marjorie)
80--The Fair Maid of Fez By St. George Rathborne
81--Wedded for an Hour By Emma Garrison Jones
82--Captain Impudence By Edwin Milton Royle
83--The Locksmith of Lyons By Prof. Wm. Henry Peck
84--Imogene By Charles Garvice
(Dumaresq's Temptation)
85--Lorrie; or, Hollow Gold By Charles Garvice
86--A Widowed Bride By Lucy Randall Comfort
87--Shenandoah By J. Perkins Tracy
89--A Gentleman from Gascony By Bicknell Dudley
90--For Fair Virginia By Russ Whytal
91--Sweet Violet By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
92--Humanity By Sutton Vane
94--Darkest Russia By H. Grattan Donnelly
95--A Wilful Maid By Charles Garvice
(Philippa)
96--The Little Minister By J. M. Barrie
97--The War Reporter By Warren Edwards
98--Claire By Charles Garvice
(The Mistress of Court Regna)
100--Alice Blake By Francis S. Smith
101--A Goddess of Africa By St. George Rathborne
102--Sweet Cymbeline By Charles Garvice
(Bellmaire)
103--The Span of Life By Sutton Vane
104--A Proud Dishonor By Genie Holzmeyer
105--When London Sleeps By Chas. Darrell
106--Lillian, My Lillian By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
107--Carla; or, Married at Sight By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
108--A Son of Mars By St. George Rathborne
109--Signa's Sweetheart By Charles Garvice
(Lord Delamere's Bride)
110--Whose Wife is She? By Annie Lisle
112--The Cattle King By A. D. Hall
113--A Crushed Lily By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
114--Half a Truth By Dora Delmar
115--A Fair Revolutionist By St. George Rathborne
116--The Daughter of the Regiment By Mary A. Denison
117--She Loved Him By Charles Garvice
118--Saved from the Sea By Richard Duffy
119--'Twixt Smile and Tear By Charles Garvice
(Dulcie)
120--The White Squadron By T. C. Harbaugh
121--Cecile's Marriage By Lucy Randall Comfort
123--Northern Lights By A. D. Hall
124--Prettiest of All By Julia Edwards
125--Devil's Island By A. D. Hall
126--The Girl from Hong Kong By St. George Rathborne
127--Nobody's Daughter By Clara Augusta
128--The Scent of the Roses By Dora Delmar
129--In Sight of St. Paul's By Sutton Vane
130--A Passion Flower By Charles Garvice
(Madge)
131--Nerine's Second Choice By Adelaide Stirling
132--Whose Was the Crime? By Gertrude Warden
134--Squire John By St. George Rathborne
135--Cast Up by the Tide By Dora Delmar
136--The Unseen Bridegroom By May Agnes Fleming
138--A Fatal Wooing By Laura Jean Libbey
139--Little Lady Charles By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
140--That Girl of Johnson's By Jean Kate Ludlum
141--Lady Evelyn By May Agnes Fleming
142--Her Rescue from the Turks By St. George Rathborne
143--A Charity Girl By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
145--Country Lanes and City Pavements By Maurice M. Minton
146--Magdalen's Vow By May Agnes Fleming
147--Under Egyptian Skies By St. George Rathborne
148--Will She Win? By Emma Garrison Jones
149--The Man She Loved By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
150--Sunset Pass By General Charles King
151--The Heiress of Glen Gower By May Agnes Fleming
152--A Mute Confessor By Will M. Harben
153--Her Son's Wife By Hazel Wood
154--Husband and Foe By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
156--A Soldier Lover By Edward S. Brooks
157--Who Wins? By May Agnes Fleming
158--Stella, the Star By Wenona Gilman
159--Out of Eden By Dora Russell
160--His Way and Her Will By Frances Aymar Mathews
161--Miss Fairfax of Virginia By St. George Rathborne
162--A Man of the Name of John By Florence King
163--A Splendid Egotist By Mrs. J. H. Walworth
164--Couldn't Say No By John Habberton
165--The Road of the Rough By Maurice M. Minton
167--The Manhattaners By Edward S. Van Zile
168--Thrice Lost, Thrice Won By May Agnes Fleming
169--The Trials of an Actress By Wenona Gilman
170--A Little Radical By Mrs. J. H. Walworth
171--That Dakota Girl By Stella Gilman
172--A King and a Coward By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
173--A Bar Sinister By St. George Rathborne
174--His Guardian Angel By Charles Garvice
175--For Honor's Sake By Laura C. Ford
176--Jack Gordon, Knight Errant By Barclay North
178--A Slave of Circumstances By Ernest De Lancey Pierson
179--One Man's Evil By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
180--A Lazy Man's Work By Frances Campbell Sparhawk
181--The Baronet's Bride By May Agnes Fleming
182--A Legal Wreck By William Gillette
183--Quo Vadis By Henryk Sienkiewicz
184--Sunlight and Gloom By Geraldine Fleming
185--The Adventures of Miss Volney By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
186--Beneath a Spell By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
187--The Black Ball By Ernest De Lancey Pierson
189--Berris By Katharine S. MacQuoid
190--A Captain of the Kaiser By St. George Rathborne
191--A Harvest of Thorns By Mrs. H. C. Hoffman
193--A Vagabond's Honor By Ernest De Lancey Pierson
194--A Sinless Crime By Geraldine Fleming
195--Her Faithful Knight By Gertrude Warden
196--A Sailor's Sweetheart By St. George Rathborne
197--A Woman Scorned By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
200--In God's Country By D. Higbee
201--Blind Elsie's Crime By Mary Grace Halpine
202--Marjorie By Katharine S. MacQuoid
203--Only One Love By Charles Garvice
204--With Heart So True By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
205--If Love Be Love By D. Cecil Gibbs
206--A Daughter of Maryland By G. Waldo Browne
208--A Chase for a Bride By St. George Rathborne
209--She Loved But Left Him By Julia Edwards
211--As We Forgive By Lurana W. Sheldon
212--Doubly Wronged By Adah M. Howard
213--The Heiress of Egremont By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
214--Olga's Crime By Frank Barrett
215--Only a Girl's Love By Charles Garvice
216--The Lost Bride By Clara Augusta
217--His Noble Wife By George Manville Fenn
218--A Life for a Love By Mrs. L. T. Meade
220--A Fatal Past By Dora Russell
221--The Honorable Jane By Annie Thomas
223--Leola Dale's Fortune By Charles Garvice
224--A Sister's Sacrifice By Geraldine Fleming
225--A Miserable Woman By Mrs. H. C. Hoffman
226--The Roll of Honor By Annie Thomas
227--The Joy of Loving By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
228--His Brother's Widow By Mary Grace Halpine
229--For the Sake of the Family By May Crommelin
230--A Woman's Atonement, and A Mother's Mistake
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231--The Earl's Heir By Charles Garvice
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232--A Debt of Honor By Mabel Collins
234--His Mother's Sin By Adeline Sergeant
235--Love at Saratoga By Lucy Randall Comfort
236--Her Humble Lover By Charles Garvice
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237--Woman or Witch? By Dora Delmar
238--That Other Woman By Annie Thomas
239--Don Cæsar De Bazan By Victor Hugo
240--Saved by the Sword By St. George Rathborne
241--Her Love and Trust By Adeline Sergeant
242--A Wounded Heart By Charles Garvice
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243--His Double Self By Scott Campbell
245--A Modern Marriage By Clara Lanza
246--True to Herself By Mrs. J. H. Walworth
247--Within Love's Portals By Frank Barrett
248--Jeanne, Countess Du Barry By H. L. Williams
249--What Love Will Do By Geraldine Fleming
250--A Woman's Soul By Charles Garvice
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251--When Love is True By Mabel Collins
252--A Handsome Sinner By Dora Delmar
253--A Fashionable Marriage By Mrs. Alex Frazer
254--Little Miss Millions By St. George Rathborne
256--Thy Name is Woman By F. H. Howe
257--A Martyred Love By Charles Garvice
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258--An Amazing Marriage By Mrs. Sumner Hayden
259--By a Golden Cord By Dora Delmar
260--At a Girl's Mercy By Jean Kate Ludlum
261--A Siren's Heart By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
262--A Woman's Faith By Henry Wallace
263--An American Nabob By St. George Rathborne
264--For Gold or Soul By Lurana W. Sheldon
265--First Love is Best By S. K. Hocking
267--Jeanne By Charles Garvice
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268--Olivia; or, It Was for Her Sake By Charles Garvice
270--Had She Foreseen By Dora Delmar
271--With Love's Laurel Crowned By W. C. Stiles
272--So Fair, So False By Charles Garvice
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273--At Swords' Points By St. George Rathborne
274--A Romantic Girl By Evelyn E. Green
275--Love's Cruel Whim By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
276--So Nearly Lost By Charles Garvice
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278--Laura Brayton By Julia Edwards
279--Nina's Peril By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
280--Love's Dilemma By Charles Garvice
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281--For Love Alone By Wenona Gilman
283--My Lady Pride By Charles Garvice
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284--Dr. Jack's Widow By St. George Rathborne
285--Born to Betray By Mrs. M. V. Victor
287--The Lady of Darracourt By Charles Garvice
289--Married in Mask By Mansfield T. Walworth
290--A Change of Heart By Effie Adelaide Rowland
292--For Her Only By Charles Garvice
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294--A Warrior Bold By St. George Rathborne
295--A Terrible Secret and Countess Isabel
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296--The Heir of Vering By Charles Garvice
297--That Girl from Texas By Mrs. J. H. Walworth
298--Should She Have Left Him? By Barclay North
300--The Spider and the Fly By Charles Garvice
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301--The False and the True By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
302--When Man's Love Fades By Hazel Wood
303--The Queen of the Isle By May Agnes Fleming
304--Stanch as a Woman By Charles Garvice
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305--Led by Love By Charles Garvice
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306--Love's Golden Rule By Geraldine Fleming
307--The Winning of Isolde By St. George Rathborne
308--Lady Ryhope's Lover By Emma Garrison Jones
309--The Heiress of Castle Cliffe By May Agnes Fleming
310--A Late Repentance By Mary A. Denison
312--Woven on Fate's Loom and The Snowdrift
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313--A Kinsman's Sin By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
314--A Maid's Fatal Love By Helen Corwin Pierce
315--The Dark Secret By May Agnes Fleming
316--Edith Lyle's Secret By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
317--Ione By Laura Jean Libbey
318--Stanch of Heart By Charles Garvice
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319--Millbank By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
320--Mynheer Joe By St. George Rathborne
321--Neva's Three Lovers By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
322--Mildred By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
323--The Little Countess By S. E. Boggs
324--A Love Match By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
325--The Leighton Homestead By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
326--Parted by Fate By Laura Jean Libbey
327--Was She Wife or Widow? By Malcolm Bell
328--He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not By Charles Garvice
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329--My Hildegarde By St. George Rathborne
330--Aikenside By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
331--Christine By Adeline Sergeant
332--Darkness and Daylight By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
333--Stella's Fortune By Charles Garvice
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334--Miss McDonald By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
335--We Parted at the Altar By Laura Jean Libbey
336--Rose Mather By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
337--Dear Elsie By Mary J. Safford
338--A Daughter of Russia By St. George Rathborne
340--Bad Hugh. Vol. I. By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
341--Bad Hugh. Vol. II. By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
342--Her Little Highness By Nataly Von Eschstruth
343--Little Sunshine By Adah M. Howard
344--Leah's Mistake By Mrs. H. C. Hoffman
345--Tresillian Court By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
346--Guy Tresillian's Fate By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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347--The Eyes of Love By Charles Garvice
348--My Florida Sweetheart By St. George Rathborne
349--Marion Grey By Mary J. Holmes
350--A Wronged Wife By Mary Grace Halpine
352--Family Pride. Vol. I. By Mary J. Holmes
353--Family Pride. Vol. II. By Mary J. Holmes
354--A Love Comedy By Charles Garvice
355--Wife and Woman By Mary J. Safford
356--Little Kit By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
357--Montezuma's Mines By St. George Rathborne
358--Beryl's Husband By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
359--The Spectre's Secret By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
360--An Only Daughter By Hazel Wood
361--The Ashes of Love By Charles Garvice
363--The Opposite House By Nataly Von Eschstruth
364--A Fool's Paradise By Mary Grace Halpine
365--Under a Cloud By Jean Kate Ludlum
366--Comrades in Exile By St. George Rathborne
367--Hearts and Coronets By Jane G. Fuller
368--The Pride of Her Life By Charles Garvice
369--At a Great Cost By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
370--Edith Trevor's Secret By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
371--Cecil Rosse By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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376--The Red Slipper By St. George Rathborne
377--Forever True By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
378--John Winthrop's Defeat By Jean Kate Ludlum
379--Blinded by Love By Nataly Von Eschstruth
380--Her Double Life By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
381--The Sunshine of Love By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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383--A Lover from Across the Sea By Mary J. Safford
384--Yet She Loved Him By Mrs. Kate Vaughn
385--A Woman Against Her By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
386--Teddy's Enchantress By St. George Rathborne
387--A Heroine's Plot By Katherine S. MacQuoid
388--Two Wives By Hazel Wood
389--Sundered Hearts By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
390--A Mutual Vow By Harold Payne
392--A Resurrected Love By Seward W. Hopkins
393--On the Wings of Fate By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
394--A Drama of a Life By Jean Kate Ludlum
395--Wooing a Widow By E. A. King
396--Back to Old Kentucky By St. George Rathborne
397--A Gilded Promise By Walter Bloomfield
398--Cupid's Disguise By Fanny Lewald
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408--On a False Charge By Seward W. Hopkins
409--A Girl's Kingdom By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
410--Miss Mischief By W. Heimburg
411--Fettered and Freed By Eugene Charvette
412--The Love that Lives By Capt Frederick Whittaker
413--Were They Married? By Hazel Wood
414--A Girl's First Love By Elizabeth C. Winter
416--Down in Dixie By St. George Rathborne
417--Brave Barbara By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
418--An Insignificant Woman By W. Heimburg
420--A Sweet Little Lady By Gertrude Warden
421--Her Sweet Reward By Barbara Kent
422--Lady Kildare By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
423--A Woman's Way By Capt. Frederick Whittaker
424--A Splendid Man By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
425--A College Widow By Frank H. Howe
427--A Wizard of the Moors By St. George Rathborne
428--A Tramp's Daughter By Hazel Wood
429--A Fair Fraud By Emily Lovett Cameron
430--The Honor of a Heart By Mary J. Safford
431--Her Husband and Her Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
432--Breta's Double By Helen V. Greyson
435--Under Oath By Jean Kate Ludlum
436--The Rival Toreadors By St. George Rathborne
437--The Breach of Custom By Mrs. D. M. Lowrey
438--So Like a Man By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
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441--A Princess of the Stage By Nataly Von Eschstruth
442--Love Before Duty By Mrs. L. T. Meade
443--In Spite of Proof By Gertrude Warden
444--Love's Trials By Alfred R. Calhoun
445--An Angel of Evil By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
446--Bound with Love's Fetters By Mary Grace Halpine
447--A Favorite of Fortune By St. George Rathborne
448--When Love Dawns By Adelaide Stirling
449--The Bailiff's Scheme By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
450--Rosamond's Love By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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452--The Last of the Van Slacks By Edward S. Van Zile
453--A Poor Girl's Passion By Gertrude Warden
454--Love's Probation By Elizabeth Olmis
455--Love's Greatest Gift By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
456--A Vixen's Treachery By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
457--Adrift in the World By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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459--A Golden Mask By Charlotte M. Stanley
460--Dr. Jack's Talisman By St. George Rathborne
461--Above All Things By Adelaide Stirling
462--A Stormy Wedding By Mary E. Bryan
463--A Wife's Triumph By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
464--The Old Life's Shadows By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
465--Outside Her Eden By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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466--Love, the Victor By a Popular Southern Author
467--Zina's Awaking By Mrs. J. K. Spender
468--The Wooing of a Fairy By Gertrude Warden
469--A Soldier and a Gentleman By J. M. Cobban
470--A Strange Wedding By Mary Hartwell Catherwood
471--A Shadowed Happiness By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
472--Dr. Jack and Company By St. George Rathborne
473--A Sacrifice to Love By Adelaide Stirling
474--The Belle of the Season By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
475--Love Before Pride By Mrs. Harriet Lewis
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477--The Siberian Exiles By Col. Thomas Knox
478--For Love of Sigrid By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
479--Mysterious Mr. Sabin By E. Phillips Oppenheim
480--A Perfect Fool By Florence Warden
481--Wedded, Yet No Wife By May Agnes Fleming
482--A Little Worldling By L. C. Ellsworth
483--Miss Marston's Heart By L. H. Bickford
484--The Whistle of Fate By Richard Marsh
485--The End Crowns All By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
486--Divided Lives By Edgar Fawcett
487--A Wonderful Woman By May Agnes Fleming
488--The French Witch By Gertrude Warden
489--Lucy Harding By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes
490--The Price of Jealousy By Maud Howe
491--My Lady of Dreadwood By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
492--A Speedy Wooing
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493--The Girl He Loved By Adelaide Stirling
494--Voyagers of Fortune By St. George Rathborne
495--Norine's Revenge By May Agnes Fleming
496--The Missing Heiress By C. H. Montague
497--A Chase for Love By Seward W. Hopkins
498--Andrew Leicester's Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
499--My Lady Cinderella By Mrs. C. N. Williamson
500--Love and Spite By Adelaide Stirling
501--Her Husband's Secret By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
502--Fair Maid Marian By Mrs. Emma Garrison Jones
503--A Lady in Black By Florence Warden
504--Evelyn, the Actress By Wenona Gilman
505--Selina's Love-story By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
506--A Secret Foe By Gertrude Warden
507--A Mad Betrothal By Laura Jean Libbey
508--Lottie and Victorine By Lucy Randall Comfort
509--A Penniless Princess By Emma Garrison Jones
510--Doctor Jack's Paradise Mine By St. George Rathborne
513--A Sensational Case By Florence Warden
514--The Temptation of Mary Barr By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
515--Tiny Luttrell By E. W. Hornung
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517--They Looked and Loved By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
518--The Secret of a Letter By Gertrude Warden
521--The Witch from India By St. George Rathborne
522--A Spurned Proposal By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
523--A Banker of Bankersville By Maurice Thompson
524--A Sacrifice of Pride By Mrs. Louisa Parr
525--Sweet Kitty Clover By Laura Jean Libbey
526--Love and Hate By Morley Roberts
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528--Adela's Ordeal By Florence Warden
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549--Tempted by Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands
550--Saved from Herself By Adelaide Stirling
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LESLIE'S LOYALTY
CHAPTER I.
LESLIE LISLE.
Nobody ever goes to Portmaris; that is to say, nobody who is anybody.
It lies--but no matter, ours shall not be the hand to ruin its
simplicity by advertising its beauties and advantages, and directing
the madding crowd to its sylvan retreat. At present the golden sands
which line the bay are innocent of the negro troupe, the peripatetic
conjurer, and the monster in human form who pesters you to purchase
hideous objects manufactured from shells and cardboard.
A time may come when Portmaris will develop into an Eastbourne or a
Brighton, a Scarborough or a Hastings; but, Heaven be praised, that
time is not yet, and Portmaris, like an unconscious village beauty,
goes on its way as yet ignorant of its loveliness.
At present there are about a dozen houses, most of them fishermen's
cottages; a church, hidden in a hollow a mile away from the restless
sea; and an inn which is satisfied with being an inn, and has not yet
learned to call itself a hotel.
Two or three of the fisherfolk let lodgings, to which come those
fortunate individuals who have quite by chance stumbled upon this
out-of-the-way spot; and in the sitting-room of the prettiest of these
unpretentious cottages was a young girl.
Her name was Leslie Lisle. She was nineteen, slim, graceful, and more
than pretty. There is a type of beauty which, with more or less truth,
is generally described as Irish. It has dark hair, blue eyes with long
black lashes, a clear and colorless complexion of creamy ivory, and
a chin that would seem pointed but for the exquisite fullness of the
lips. It is a type which is more fascinating than the severe Greek,
more "holding" than the voluptuous Spanish, more spirituel than the
vivacious French; in short, it is a kind of beauty before which most
men go down completely and forever vanquished, and this because the
wonderful gray-blue eyes are capable of an infinity of expressions, can
be grave one moment and brimming over with fun the next; because there
lurks, even when they are most quiescent, a world of possibilities in
the way of wit in the corners of the red lips; because the face, as you
watch it, can in the course of a few minutes flash with spirit, melt
with tenderness, and all the while remain the face of a pure, innocent,
healthy, light-hearted girl.
The young men who crossed Leslie Lisle's path underwent a sad
experience.
At first they were attracted by her beauty; in a few hours or days, as
the case might be, they began to find the attraction lying somewhat
deeper than the face; then they grew restless, unhappy, lost their
appetites, got to lying awake of nights, and lastly went to pieces
completely, and if they possessed sufficient courage, flung themselves
perfectly wretched and overcome at the small feet of the slim, girlish
figure which had become to them even that of the one woman in the
world. And to do Leslie justice, she was not only always surprised, but
distressed. She had said nothing, and what is more, looked nothing, to
encourage them. She had been just herself, a frank yet modest English
girl, with an Irish face, and that indescribable sweetness which draws
men's hearts from their bosoms before they know what has happened to
them.
She was seated at the piano in the sitting-room of the cottage which
the fisherman who owned it had christened Sea View, and she was amusing
herself and a particularly silent and morose parrot by singing some of
the old songs and ballads which she had found in a rickety music-stand
in the corner; and for all the parrot glanced at her disapprovingly
with his glassy eye, she had a sufficiently sweet voice, and sang with
more than the usual amount of feeling.
While she was in the middle of that famous but slightly monotonous
composition, "Robin Grey," the door opened, and a tall, thin man
entered.
This was Francis Lisle, her father. He was a man this side of fifty,
but looked older in consequence, perhaps, of his hair, which was gray
and scanty, a faded face, with a dreamy far away look in the faint blue
eyes, and a somewhat bent form and dragging gait. He carried a portable
easel in one hand, and held a canvas under his arm.
As he entered he looked round the room as if he had never seen it
before, then set the easel up in a corner, placed the canvas on it
upside down, and crossing his hands behind his back, stood with bent
head gazing at it for some moments in silence. Then he said, in a voice
which matched the dreamy face:
"Leslie, come here."
Leslie stopped short in the middle of the most heart-rending line of
the cheerful ballad, and walked--no; glided? scarcely; it is difficult
to describe how the girl got across the small room, so full of grace,
so characteristic was her mode of progression, and putting both hands
on his shoulders, leaned her cheek against his head.
"Back already, dear?" she said, and the tone fully indicated the
position in which she stood toward her parent. "I thought you were
going to make a long day of it."
"Yes, yes," he said, without taking his eyes from the sketch. "I did
intend doing so. I started full of my subject and--er--inspired
with hope, and I don't think I have altogether failed. It is
difficult--very. The tone of that sky would fill a careless amateur
with despair, but--but I am not careless. Whatever I may be I am
not that. The secrets of art which she hides from the unthinking
and--er--irreverent she confides to her true worshipers. Now, Leslie,
look at that sky. Look at it carefully, critically, and tell me--do you
not think I have caught that half tone, that delicious mingling of the
chrome and the ultramarine? There is a wealth of form and color in that
right hand corner, and I--yes, I think it is the best, by far the best
and truest thing I have as yet done."
Leslie leaned forward, and softly, swiftly, placed the picture right
side up.
It had not very much improved by the transposition. It was--well, to
put it bluntly, a daub of the most awful description. Never since the
world began had there ever, in nature, been anything like it. The
average schoolboy libeling nature with a shilling box of colors could
not have sinned more deeply. The sea was a brilliant washerwoman's
blue, the hills were heaps of muddy ochre, the fishing vessels looked
like blackbeetles struggling on their backs, there was a cow in the
meadow in the foreground which would have wrung tears from any one who
had ever set eyes on that harmless but necessary animal, and the bit of
sky in the corner was utterly and completely indescribable.
Leslie looked at it with a sad little expression in her eyes, the
pitying look one sees in the face of a woman whose life is spent in
humoring the weakness of a beloved one; then she said, gently:
"It is very striking, papa."
"Striking!" repeated Francis Lisle. "Striking! I like that word. You,
too, are an artist, my dear Leslie, though you never touch a brush. How
well you know how to use the exact expression. I flatter myself that
it is striking. I think I may say, without egotism, that no one, no
real critic could look at that sketch--for it is a mere sketch--without
being struck!"
"Yes, papa," she murmured, soothingly.
He shaded his eyes with his thin white hands in the orthodox fashion,
and peered at the monstrosity.
"There is, if I may say so, an--er--originality in the treatment which
would alone make the sketch interesting and valuable. Tell me, now,
Leslie, what it is in it that catches your fancy most."
Leslie looked at it carefully.
"I--I think that heap of sea-weed nicely painted, papa," she said,
putting her arm round his neck.
"Heap of sea-weed?" his brows knitted. "Heap of sea-weed? I don't see
anything of the kind."
"There, papa," she said, pointing.
"My dear Leslie, I have always suspected that your sight was not
perfect, that there was some defect in its range power; that is not a
heap of sea-weed, but a fisherwoman mending her nets!"
"Of course! How stupid of me!" she said, quickly. "I'm afraid I am
near-sighted, dear. But don't you think you have done enough for
to-day? Why not put it away until to-morrow?"
"There is no to-morrow, Leslie," he said, gravely, as he got out his
palette. "'Art is long and life is fleeting.' Never forget that, my
dear. No, I can stipple on a little. I intend finishing this sketch,
and making a miniature--a cabinet picture. It shall be worthy of a
place among those exquisite studies of Foster's. And yet----," he sighed
and pushed the hair from his forehead, "and yet I'll be bound that if
I tried to sell it, I should not find a dealer to give me a few paltry
pounds for it. So blind and prejudiced! No, they would not buy it, and
possibly the Academy would refuse to exhibit it. Prejudice, prejudice!
But art has its own rewards, thank Heaven! I paint because I must. Fame
has no attraction. I am content to wait. Yes, though the recognition
which is my due may come too late! It is often thus!"
The girl bent her beautiful head--she stood taller than the drooping
figure of her father--and kissed, ah! how tenderly, pityingly, the gray
hair.
Francis Lisle, Esquire, the younger son of an old Irish family, had
been a dreamer from his youth up. He had started with a good education
and a handsome little fortune; he had dreamed away the education,
dreamed away the small fortune, dreamed away nearly all his life, and
his great dream was that he was an artist. He couldn't draw a haystack,
and certainly could not have colored it correctly even if by chance he
had drawn it; but he was persuaded that he was a great artist, and he
fancied that his hand transferred to the canvas the scenes which he
attempted to paint.
And he was not unhappy. His wife had died when Leslie was a mite of a
thing, and how he had managed to get on until Leslie was old enough
to take care of him can never even be surmised; but she began to play
the mother, the guardian, and protector to this visionary father of
hers, at an extremely early age. She managed everything, almost fed and
clothed him, and kept from him all those petty ills and worries which
make life such a burden for most people.
They had no settled home, but wandered about, sometimes on the
Continent, but mostly in England, and Francis Lisle had hundreds of
sketches which were like nothing under heaven, but were supposed to be
"ideas" for larger pictures, of places they had visited.
They had been at Portmaris a couple of months when we find them,
and though Francis Lisle was just beginning to get tired of it, and
restlessly anxious to be on the move again, Leslie was loth to leave.
She had grown fond of the golden sands, the strip of pebbly beach, the
narrow street broken by its wind-twisted trees, the green lanes leading
to the country beyond, and still more fond of the simple-hearted fisher
folk, who always welcomed her with a smile, and had already learned to
call her Miss Leslie.
Indeed, Miss Lisle was a dangerous young woman, and the hearts of young
and old, gentle and simple, went down before a glance of her gray-blue
eyes, a smile from the mobile lips, a word from her voice which
thrilled with a melody few could resist.
Francis Lisle went on daubing, his head on one side, a rapt, contented
look on his pale, aristocratic face.
"Yes, this is going to be one of my best efforts," he said, with placid
complacency. "Go and sing something, Leslie. I can always work better
while you are singing. Music and painting are twin sisters. I adore
them both."
Leslie went back to the piano with that peculiarly graceful motion of
hers, and touched a note or two.
"Were there no letters this morning, dear?" she asked.
"Letters?" Lisle put his hand to his forehead as if rudely called back
to earth from the empyrean. "Letters? No. Yes, I forgot. There was one.
It was from Ralph Duncombe."
Leslie turned her head slightly, and the rather thick brows which
helped the eyes in all their unconscious mischief straightened.
"From Ralph? What does he say?"
"I don't know," replied Lisle, placidly. "I can never read his letters;
he writes so terribly plain a hand; its hardness jars upon me. I have
it--somewhere?"
He searched his pockets reluctantly.
"No, I must have lost it. Does it matter very much?"
Leslie laughed softly.
"I don't know; but one generally likes to know what is in a letter."
"Well, then, I wish I could find it. I told the postman when he gave
it to me that I should probably lose it, and that he had better bring
it on to the house; but--well, I don't think he understood me. I often
think that we speak an unknown language to these country people."
"Perhaps he did not hear you," said Leslie. "Sometimes, you know, dear,
you think you have spoken when you have not uttered a word, but only
thought."
"I dare say," he assented, dreamily. "Now I come to think of it, I
fancy Duncombe said he was coming down here----."
The slender white hands which had been touching the keys caressingly
stopped.
"Coming here, papa!"
"Yes. I think so. I'm not sure. Now, what could I have done with that
letter?"
He made another search, failed to find it, shook his head as if
dismissing the subject, and resumed his "work."
Leslie struck a chord, and opened her lips to sing, when the sound of
the wheels belonging to the one fly in the place came down the uneven
street. She paused to listen, then leaned sideways and looked through
the window.
"The station fly!" she said. "And it has stopped at Marine Villa, papa.
It must be another visitor. Fancy two visitors at the same time in
Portmaris! It will go wild with excitement."
The cranky vehicle had pulled up at the opposite cottage, and Leslie,
with mild, very mild, curiosity, got up from the piano and went to the
window.
As she did so a man dressed in soft tweed got down from beside the
driver, opened the fly-door, and gave his arm to a young man whose
appearance filled Leslie's heart with pity; for he was a cripple. His
back was bent, his face pale and gentle as a woman's, marked with lines
which were eloquent of weary days, and still more weary nights; and in
the dark eyes was that peculiar expression of sadness which a life of
pain and suffering patiently borne sets as a seal.
The young fellow leaned on his stick and the man's arm, and looked
round him, and his eye, dark and full of a soft penetration, fell upon
the lovely face at the opposite window.
Leslie drew back, when it was too late, and breathed an exclamation of
regret.
"Oh, papa!"
"What is the matter?" asked Lisle, vacantly.
"I am sorry!" she said. "He will think I was staring at him--and so I
was. And that will seem so cruel to him, poor fellow."
"What is cruel? which poor fellow?" demanded Lisle with feeble
impatience.
"Some one who has just got out of the fly, dear; a cripple, poor
fellow; and he saw me watching him." And she sighed again.
"Eh?" said Lisle, as if he were trying to recollect something. "Ah,
yes, I remember. Mrs. Whiting told me that he was expected some time
to-day; they had a telegram saying he was coming."
"He? Who?" said Leslie, going back to the piano.
"Who?" repeated Lisle, as if he were heartily sorry he had continued
the subject. "Why, this young man. Dear me, I forget his name and
title----."
"Title? Poor fellow! Is he a nobleman, papa? That makes it seem so much
worse, doesn't it?"
Lisle looked round at her helplessly.
"Upon my word, my dear," he said, "I do not wish to appear dense, but I
haven't the least idea of what you are talking about, and----," he went
on more quietly, as if he feared she were going to explain, "it doesn't
matter. Pray sing something, and--and do not let us worry about things
which do not concern us."
Leslie began to sing without another word.