Chapter 19 STRANGE EMOTION by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER It was the little, dark-eyed beauty, Annette Janowitz, who had been listening by the door for some minutes, and now, unable to restrain her excitement, rushed to Daisie’s side with a passionate…
Chapter 18 BE KIND TO ME by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Half dazed with horror, Daisie followed Mrs. Fleming over the threshold into the darkened room, where a grave-faced physician watched by the bedside of the dying man. She saw Royall…
Chapter 17 HIS CRUEL RIVAL by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER A cry of angry incredulity came from Daisie’s lips. “It is not true. This is some new plot against me. I will not go!” But just then Mrs. Bell jerked open…
Chapter 17 HIS CRUEL RIVAL by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER A cry of angry incredulity came from Daisie’s lips. “It is not true. This is some new plot against me. I will not go!” But just then Mrs. Bell jerked open…
Chapter 16 FAITHFUL by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Mrs. Fleming, pale with secret wrath and chagrin, sent a venomous look after the retreating forms of Dallas and Daisie, then set herself the task of making everything right with her guests. “It…
Chapter 16 FAITHFUL by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Mrs. Fleming, pale with secret wrath and chagrin, sent a venomous look after the retreating forms of Dallas and Daisie, then set herself the task of making everything right with her guests. “It…
Chapter 15 THE FAULT WAS MINE! by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER A bolt from heaven could not have stricken Daisie Bell more suddenly from her feet than the words Mrs. Fleming had spoken in such venomous triumph. The poor victim tottered,…
Chapter 14 LOVE IS HEAVEN by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Inside the drawing-room, now that the last act of the entertainment was over, all was joyous confusion, people flitting about in merry converse, while over all rose low strains of music,…
Chapter 13 HER OWN AGAIN by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Dallas Bain watched with straining gaze that scene within Mrs. Fleming’s brilliant drawing-room, and his heart was wrung with a pain more bitter than death. The vague belief and hope that…
Chapter 13 HER OWN AGAIN by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Dallas Bain watched with straining gaze that scene within Mrs. Fleming’s brilliant drawing-room, and his heart was wrung with a pain more bitter than death. The vague belief and hope that…