CHAPTER XXXIII.

THE SOUND OF WEDDING-BELLS.

It was a bright day at the seashore, and the beach was crowded.

Lord and Lady Quaintree were at Eastbourne, with the Honorable Gerald and “the two girls,” as Lois and Blanche were affectionately designated. Frank Amberley had come to spend his few weeks of holiday here.

Paul, by the advice of his colonel, had seen the Italian consul in London. The consul had looked grave, listened to his story, received the register, and said:

“The matter shall have every attention, and in all probability we shall communicate with you shortly respecting it.”

Some months, after all, elapsed before Captain Desfrayne received any communication, and then he learned the painful facts of the unhappy Lucia’s third marriage and the loss of her reason.

He made every effort to find her on settling the affair at the Italian consulate--but vainly, and was obliged to relinquish the attempt. Then he repaired to Eastbourne. The agitation of these last few weeks had told terribly on his health, although he was rejoicing with unspeakable joy over his recovered liberty.

He knew that the Quaintrees had chosen the place; indeed, that had been the attraction for him. And Frank Amberley had seen him during his visit to London, and mentioned his intention of coming.

Captain Desfrayne set off to pay a visit of ceremony to Lady Quaintree.

On the way, however, the scene was so bright, so alluring, so unlike what he had been condemned to for some time, that he paused to contemplate it.

How many minutes he lingered he did not know, but he was aroused from a bitter-sweet day-dream by hearing some one address him by name. It was Frank Amberley.

The young lawyer had left a party seated on the beach to come and intercept Paul; but returned to them, followed by his treasure-trove.

Paul’s heart beat violently, for he perceived Lois Turquand, dazzlingly beautiful as a sea-nymph. He knew not what he said, either to the ladies or to Lord Quaintree and his son, and sat down mechanically when Blanche moved a little to make room for him on the beach.

The remarks, the replies, the notes, and queries, were all commonplace enough, so Paul could keep up a show of attention without betraying his abstracted state of mind.

“Charming, indeed,” he had just returned, to an observation of Lady Quaintree’s--Lois was absolutely silent.

Frank Amberley, too loyal to gain any advantage by treachery, would have explained to Lois that the sad story he told her had ended less tragically than it threatened to do; but he had not yet found any opportunity of speaking to Miss Turquand undisturbed. He had, in fact, preceded Captain Desfrayne by only a couple of days.

Gerald had continued to devote himself to Blanche, in spite of his mother’s evidences of displeasure. Lady Quaintree had begun to despair of being able to secure Lois as a daughter-in-law. Blanche was amused by the little flirtation into which Gerald had drawn her, but she cared not a straw for him; while the grave, handsome face, the soft, musical accents of Frank Amberley began to dangerously haunt her dreams.

The little party rose, and Paul Desfrayne accompanied them a short way. For part of the time he found himself lingering behind the others, with Miss Turquand.

An almost irrepressible desire to confide in her rose in his heart; but he crushed the wish, for this was neither the time nor place. A few impetuous words, however, gave her an inkling of the change that had come to him, and she glanced up at him. A look of passionate admiration--of dawning love--made her blush deeply and avert her head, and hurry a few steps to rejoin the others. But when they were about to part, she gave him her hand with a little happy smile of confidence.

The tranquil, sunlit days glided by, and lengthened into weeks.

Frank Amberley, fully conscious of the risk to his peace involved by lingering, could not tear himself away. But by degrees he discovered the charm, the beauty, the sweetness of the innocent Blanche’s character, so was in a fair way of being consoled. Happily for himself, he was not one of those who love but once and forever.

Paul Desfrayne did not tell his painful story all at once, and Lois spared him much of the distress involved in the recital, but by degrees she became aware of all the sad details; and she gave him all the pity and sympathy of her fresh young heart.

The Honorable Gerald found some one more appreciative and more warmly disposed in his favor than the pretty Blanche, and transferred all the devotion he had to offer to the more accessible divinity.

Paul was left pretty much to his own devices in winning the prize held out to him so strangely.

It was not a difficult task. Never did wooing prosper more hopefully.

The last few days of this brief, delicious holiday were fast winging to the dim past.

Nay, the last evening had come--a soft, cloudless, moonlit night, when the very air seemed to breathe of love.

Gerald was away; Blanche and Lady Quaintree were taking a farewell turn on the sands; Lord Quaintree was asleep. Lois had stayed at home, for she had a tolerably clear idea that Paul would come, and he had looked a hope that he might find her alone.

The young girl was sitting in the long, flower-wreathed balcony, the mild, silvery moonbeams falling over her like a radiance, making her look some lovely ethereal spirit.

Paul did come, as she anticipated. The dim, mysterious light did not betray the glowing blush upon her beautiful face, the sparkling, happy light in her eyes. She did not hear his step upon the carpet, nor see him, but some electrical sympathy told her he was approaching.

With a soft, welcoming, trustful smile, she held out her hand, which he took, but omitted to release. Then he sat down close to her, yet slightly behind her chair, as if even now he scarcely dared to believe that the promise of the future could be true.

A murmuring conversation, too low for ears less acute than those attuned by love to hear, and then Paul gently folded Lois in his arms. Then, after a pause, he slipped a diamond ring of betrothal upon her finger, and she was his promised wife.

Vere Gardiner’s dying wishes had come to a happy fruition, after all. And the story ended like the delightful old fairy-tales, with a joyous clash of merry wedding-bells.

But this time there was no rash marrying in haste. Almost a year elapsed, by the influence and desire of Lady Quaintree, before the pretty bridal-party met in Flore Hall, about six weeks before the marriage of Frank Amberley and Blanche Dormer.

The echoes of the harmonious wedding-bells sound as yet through the wedded life of Paul and his true love. Adieu, care; farewell, sorrow, for the inevitable cares and sorrows are shared, so fall lightly.

Sometimes a faint cloud comes over Paul’s face as he thinks of the one act of folly which had so nearly ruined his life; but he tries to forget the forbidding past, and to sun himself in the love and bright smiles of his wife and two little angel-children, baby Lois, and her elder brother, Paul.

THE END.

“Her Heart’s Delight,” by Bertha M. Clay is the title of No. 301 of the NEW BERTHA CLAY LIBRARY. It is a story that the readers of this series will not find lacking in the skill that Bertha Clay displays in telling a vivid romance.

POPULAR COPYRIGHTS

New Eagle Series

_Carefully Selected Love Stories_

There is such a profusion of good books in this list, that it is an impossibility to urge you to select any particular title or author’s work. All that we can say is that any line that contains the complete works of Mrs. Georgie Sheldon, Charles Garvice, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, May Agnes Fleming, Wenona Gilman, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, and other writers of the same type, is worthy of your attention.

_ALL TITLES ALWAYS IN PRINT_

1--Queen Bess By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 2--Ruby’s Reward By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 7--Two Keys By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 9--The Virginia Heiress By May Agnes Fleming 12--Edrie’s Legacy By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 17--Leslie’s Loyalty By Charles Garvice 22--Elaine By Charles Garvice 24--A Wasted Love By Charles Garvice 41--Her Heart’s Desire By Charles Garvice 44--That Dowdy By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 50--Her Ransom By Charles Garvice 55--Thrice Wedded By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 66--Witch Hazel By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 70--Sydney By Charles Garvice 73--The Marquis By Charles Garvice 77--Tina By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 79--Out of the Past By Charles Garvice 84--Imogene By Charles Garvice 85--Lorrie; or, Hollow Gold By Charles Garvice 88--Virgie’s Inheritance By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 95--A Wilful Maid By Charles Garvice 98--Claire By Charles Garvice 99--Audrey’s Recompense By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 102--Sweet Cymbeline By Charles Garvice 109--Signa’s Sweetheart By Charles Garvice 111--Faithful Shirley By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 117--She Loved Him By Charles Garvice 119--’Twixt Smile and Tear By Charles Garvice 122--Grazia’s Mistake By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 130--A Passion Flower By Charles Garvice 133--Max By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 136--The Unseen Bridegroom By May Agnes Fleming 138--A Fatal Wooing By Laura Jean Libbey 141--Lady Evelyn By May Agnes Fleming 144--Dorothy’s Jewels By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 146--Magdalen’s Vow By May Agnes Fleming 151--The Heiress of Glen Gower By May Agnes Fleming 155--Nameless Dell By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 157--Who Wins By May Agnes Fleming 166--The Masked Bridal By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 168--Thrice Lost, Thrice Won By May Agnes Fleming 174--His Guardian Angel By Charles Garvice 177--A True Aristocrat By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 181--The Baronet’s Bride By May Agnes Fleming 188--Dorothy Arnold’s Escape By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 199--Geoffrey’s Victory By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 203--Only One Love By Charles Garvice 210--Wild Oats By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 213--The Heiress of Egremont By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 215--Only a Girl’s Love By Charles Garvice 219--Lost: A Pearle By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 222--The Lily of Mordaunt By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 223--Leola Dale’s Fortune By Charles Garvice 231--The Earl’s Heir By Charles Garvice 233--Nora By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 236--Her Humble Lover By Charles Garvice 242--A Wounded Heart By Charles Garvice 244--A Hoiden’s Conquest By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 250--A Woman’s Soul By Charles Garvice 255--The Little Marplot By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 257--A Martyred Love By Charles Garvice 266--The Welfleet Mystery By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 267--Jeanne By Charles Garvice 268--Olivia; or, It Was for Her Sake By Charles Garvice 272--So Fair, So False By Charles Garvice 276--So Nearly Lost By Charles Garvice 277--Brownie’s Triumph By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 280--Love’s Dilemma By Charles Garvice 282--The Forsaken Bride By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 283--My Lady Pride By Charles Garvice 287--The Lady of Darracourt By Charles Garvice 288--Sibyl’s Influence By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 291--A Mysterious Wedding Ring By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 292--For Her Only By Charles Garvice 296--The Heir of Vering By Charles Garvice 299--Little Miss Whirlwind By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 300--The Spider and the Fly By Charles Garvice 303--The Queen of the Isle By May Agnes Fleming 304--Stanch as a Woman By Charles Garvice 305--Led by Love By Charles Garvice 309--The Heiress of Castle Cliffs By May Agnes Fleming 312--Woven on Fate’s Loom, and The Snowdrift By Charles Garvice 315--The Dark Secret By May Agnes Fleming 317--Ione By Laura Jean Libbey 318--Stanch of Heart By Charles Garvice 322--Mildred By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 326--Parted by Fate By Laura Jean Libbey 327--He Loves Me By Charles Garvice 328--He Loves Me Not By Charles Garvice 330--Aikenside By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 333--Stella’s Fortune By Charles Garvice 334--Miss McDonald By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 339--His Heart’s Queen By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 340--Bad Hugh. Vol. I. By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 341--Bad Hugh. Vol. II. By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 344--Tresillian Court By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 345--The Scorned Wife By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 346--Guy Tresillian’s Fate By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 347--The Eyes of Love By Charles Garvice 348--The Hearts of Youth By Charles Garvice 351--The Churchyard Betrothal By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 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 360--The Ashes of Love By Charles Garvice 361--A Heart Triumphant By Charles Garvice 362--Stella Rosevelt By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 367--The Pride of Her Life By Charles Garvice 368--Won By Love’s Valor By Charles Garvice 372--A Girl in a Thousand By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 373--A Thorn Among Roses. Sequel to “A Girl In a Thousand” By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 380--Her Double Life By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 381--The Sunshine of Love. Sequel to “Her Double Life” By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 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 440--Edna’s Secret Marriage By Charles Garvice 449--The Bailiff’s Scheme By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 450--Rosamond’s Love. Sequel to “The Bailiff’s Scheme” By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 451--Helen’s Victory By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 456--A Vixen’s Treachery By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 457--Adrift in the World. Sequel to “A Vixen’s Treachery” By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 458--When Love Meets Love By Charles Garvice 464--The Old Life’s Shadows By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 465--Outside Her Eden. Sequel to “The Old Life’s Shadows” By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 474--The Belle of the Season By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 475--Love Before Pride. Sequel to “The Belle of the Season” By Mrs. Harriet Lewis 481--Wedded, Yet No Wife By May Agnes Fleming 489--Lucy Harding By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes 495--Norine’s Revenge By May Agnes Fleming 511--The Golden Key By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 512--A Heritage of Love. Sequel to “The Golden Key” By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 519--The Magic Cameo By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 520--The Heatherford Fortune. Sequel to “The Magic Cameo” By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 531--Better Than Life 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 557--In Cupid’s Chains By Charles Garvice 630--The Verdict of the Heart By Charles Garvice 635--A Coronet of Shame By Charles Garvice 640--A Girl of Spirit By Charles Garvice 645--A Jest of Fate By Charles Garvice 648--Gertrude Elliott’s Crucible By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 650--Diana’s Destiny By Charles Garvice 655--Linked by Fate By Charles Garvice 663--Creatures of Destiny By Charles Garvice 671--When Love Is Young By Charles Garvice 676--My Lady Beth By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 679--Gold in the Gutter By Charles Garvice 712--Love and a Lie By Charles Garvice 721--A Girl from the South By Charles Garvice 730--John Hungerford’s Redemption By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 741--The Fatal Ruby By Charles Garvice 749--The Heart of a Maid By Charles Garvice 758--The Woman in It By Charles Garvice 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 818--The Girl Who Was True By Charles Garvice 826--The Irony of Love By Charles Garvice 896--A Terrible Secret By May Agnes Fleming 897--When To-morrow Came By May Agnes Fleming 904--A Mad Marriage By May Agnes Fleming 905--A Woman Without Mercy By May Agnes Fleming 912--One Night’s Mystery By May Agnes Fleming 913--The Cost of a Lie By May Agnes Fleming 920--Silent and True By May Agnes Fleming 921--A Treasure Lost By May Agnes Fleming 925--Forrest House By Mary J. Holmes 926--He Loved Her Once By Mary J. Holmes 930--Kate Danton By May Agnes Fleming 931--Proud as a Queen By May Agnes Fleming 935--Queenie Hetherton By Mary J. Holmes 936--Mightier Than Pride By Mary J. Holmes 940--The Heir of Charlton By May Agnes Fleming 941--While Love Stood Waiting By May Agnes Fleming 945--Gretchen By Mary J. Holmes 946--Beauty That Faded By Mary J. Holmes 950--Carried by Storm By May Agnes Fleming 951--Love’s Dazzling Glitter By May Agnes Fleming 954--Marguerite By Mary J. Holmes 955--When Love Spurs Onward By Mary J. Holmes 960--Lost for a Woman By May Agnes Fleming 961--His to Love or Hate By May Agnes Fleming 964--Paul Ralston’s First Love By Mary J. Holmes 965--Where Love’s Shadows Lie Deep By Mary J. Holmes 968--The Tracy Diamonds By Mary J. Holmes 969--She Loved Another By Mary J. Holmes 972--The Cromptons By Mary J. Holmes 973--Her Husband Was a Scamp By Mary J. Holmes 975--The Merivale Banks By Mary J. Holmes 978--The One Girl in the World By Charles Garvice 979--His Priceless Jewel By Charles Garvice 982--The Millionaire’s Daughter and Other Stories By Chas. Garvice 983--Doctor Hathern’s Daughters By Mary J. Holmes 984--The Colonel’s Bride By Mary J. Holmes 988--Her Ladyship’s Diamonds, and Other Stories By Chas. Garvice 998--Sharing Her Crime By May Agnes Fleming 999--The Heiress of Sunset Hall By May Agnes Fleming 1004--Maude Percy’s Secret By May Agnes Fleming 1005--The Adopted Daughter By May Agnes Fleming 1010--The Sisters of Torwood By May Agnes Fleming 1015--A Changed Heart By May Agnes Fleming 1016--Enchanted By May Agnes Fleming 1025--A Wife’s Tragedy By May Agnes Fleming 1026--Brought to Reckoning By May Agnes Fleming 1027--A Madcap Sweetheart By Emma Garrison Jones 1028--An Unhappy Bargain By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1029--Only a Working Girl By Geraldine Fleming 1030--The Unbidden Guest By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1031--The Man and His Millions By Ida Reade Allen 1032--Mabel’s Sacrifice By Charlotte M. Stanley 1033--Was He Worth It? By Geraldine Fleming 1034--Her Two Suitors By Wenona Gilman 1035--Edith Percival By May Agnes Fleming 1036--Caught in the Snare By May Agnes Fleming 1037--A Love Concealed By Emma Garrison Jones 1038--The Price of Happiness By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1039--The Lucky Man By Geraldine Fleming 1040--A Forced Promise By Ida Reade Allen 1041--The Crime of Love By Barbara Howard 1042--The Bride’s Opals By Emma Garrison Jones 1043--Love That Was Cursed By Geraldine Fleming 1044--Thorns of Regret By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1045--Love Will Find the Way By Wenona Gilman 1046--Bitterly Atoned By Mrs. E. Burke Collins 1047--Told in the Twilight By Ida Reade Allen 1048--A Little Barbarian By Charlotte Kingsley 1049--Love’s Golden Spell By Geraldine Fleming 1050--Married in Error By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1051--If It Were True By Wenona Gilman 1052--Vivian’s Love Story By Mrs. E. Burke Collins 1053--From Tears to Smiles By Ida Reade Allen 1054--When Love Dawns By Adelaide Stirling 1055--Love’s Earnest Prayer By Geraldine Fleming 1056--The Strength of Love By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1057--A Lost Love By Wenona Gilman 1058--The Stronger Passion By Lillian R. Drayton 1059--What Love Can Cost By Evelyn Malcolm 1060--At Another’s Bidding By Ida Reade Allen 1061--Above All Things By Adelaide Stirling 1062--The Curse of Beauty By Geraldine Fleming 1063--Her Sister’s Secret By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1064--Married in Haste By Wenona Gilman 1065--Fair Maid Marian By Emma Garrison Jones 1066--No Man’s Wife By Ida Reade Allen 1067--A Sacrifice to Love By Adelaide Stirling 1068--Her Fatal Gift By Geraldine Fleming 1069--Her Life’s Burden By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1070--Evelyn, the Actress By Wenona Gilman 1071--Married for Money By Lucy Randall Comfort 1072--A Lost Sweetheart By Ida Reade Allen 1073--A Golden Sorrow By Charlotte M. Stanley 1074--Her Heart’s Challenge By Barbara Howard 1075--His Willing Slave By Lillian R. Drayton 1076--A Freak of Fate By Emma Garrison Jones 1077--Her Punishment By Laura Jean Libbey 1078--The Shadow Between Them By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1079--No Time for Penitence By Wenona Gilman 1080--Norma’s Black Fortune By Ida Reade Allen 1081--A Wilful Girl By Lucy Randall Comfort 1082--Love’s First Kiss By Emma Garrison Jones 1083--Lola Dunbar’s Crime By Barbara Howard 1084--Ethel’s Secret By Charlotte M. Stanley 1085--Lynette’s Wedding By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1086--A Fair Enchantress By Ida Reade Allen 1087--The Tide of Fate By Wenona Gilman 1088--Her Husband’s Other Wife By Emma Garrison Jones 1089--Hearts of Stone By Geraldine Fleming 1090--In Love’s Springtime By Laura Jean Libbey 1091--Love at the Loom By Geraldine Fleming 1092--What Was She to Him? By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1093--For Another’s Fault By Charlotte M. Stanley 1094--Hearts and Dollars By Ida Reade Allan 1095--A Wife’s Triumph By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1096--A Bachelor Girl By Lucy May Russell 1097--Love and Spite By Adelaide Stirling 1098--Leola’s Heart By Charlotte M. Stanley 1099--The Power of Love By Geraldine Fleming 1100--An Angel of Evil By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1101--True to His Bride By Emma Garrison Jones 1102--The Lady of Beaufort Park By Wenona Gilman 1103--A Daughter of Darkness By Ida Reade Allen 1104--My Pretty Maid By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1105--Master of Her Fate By Geraldine Fleming 1106--A Shadowed Happiness By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1107--John Elliott’s Flirtation By Lucy May Russell 1108--A Forgotten Love By Adelaide Stirling 1109--Sylvia, The Forsaken By Charlotte M. Stanley 1110--Her Dearest Love By Geraldine Fleming 1111--Love’s Greatest Gift By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1112--Mischievous Maid Faynie By Laura Jean Libbey 1113--In Love’s Name By Emma Garrison Jones 1114--Love’s Clouded Dawn By Wenona Gilman 1115--A Blue Grass Heroine By Ida Reade Allen 1116--Only a Kiss By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1117--Virgie Talcott’s Mission By Lucy May Russell 1118--Her Evil Genius By Adelaide Stirling 1119--In Love’s Paradise By Charlotte M. Stanley 1120--Sold for Gold By Geraldine Fleming 1121--Andrew Leicester’s Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1122--Taken by Storm By Emma Garrison Jones 1123--The Mills of the Gods By Wenona Gilman 1124--The Breath of Slander By Ida Reade Allen 1125--Loyal Unto Death By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1126--A Spurned Proposal By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1127--Daredevil Betty By Evelyn Malcolm 1128--Her Life’s Dark Cloud By Lillian R. Drayton 1129--True Love Endures By Ida Reade Allen 1130--The Battle of Hearts By Geraldine Fleming 1131--Better Than Riches By Wenona Gilman 1132--Tempted By Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1133--Between Good and Evil By Charlotte M. Stanley 1134--A Southern Princess By Emma Garrison Jones 1135--The Thorns of Love By Evelyn Malcolm 1136--A Married Flirt By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1137--Her Priceless Love By Geraldine Fleming 1138--My Own Sweetheart By Wenona Gilman 1139--Love’s Harvest By Adelaide Fox Robinson 1140--His Two Loves By Ida Reade Allen 1141--The Love He Sought By Lillian R. Drayton 1142--A Fateful Promise By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1143--Love Surely Triumphs By Charlotte May Kingsley 1144--The Haunting Past By Evelyn Malcolm 1145--Sorely Tried By Emma Garrison Jones 1146--Falsely Accused By Geraldine Fleming 1147--Love Given in Vain By Adelaide Fox Robinson 1148--No One to Help Her By Ida Reade Allen 1149--Her Golden Secret By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1150--Saved From Herself By Adelaide Stirling 1151--The Gypsy’s Warning By Emma Garrison Jones 1152--Caught in Love’s Net By Ida Reade Allen 1153--The Pride of My Heart By Laura Jean Libbey 1154--A Vagabond Heiress By Charlotte May Kingsley 1155--That Terrible Tomboy By Geraldine Fleming 1156--The Man She Hated By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1157--Her Fateful Choice By Charlotte M. Stanley 1158--A Hero For Love’s Sake By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1159--A Penniless Princess By Emma Garrison Jones 1160--Love’s Rugged Pathway By Ida Reade Allen 1161--Had She Loved Him Less By Laura Jean Libbey 1162--The Serpent and the Dove By Charlotte May Kingsley 1163--What Love Made Her By Geraldine Fleming 1164--Love Conquers Pride By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1165--His Unbounded Faith By Charlotte M. Stanley 1166--A Heart’s Triumph By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1167--Stronger than Fate By Emma Garrison Jones 1168--A Virginia Goddess By Ida Reade Allen 1169--Love’s Young Dream By Laura Jean Libbey 1170--When Fate Decrees By Adelaide Fox Robinson 1171--For a Flirt’s Love By Geraldine Fleming 1172--All For Love By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1173--Could He Have Known By Charlotte May Stanley 1174--The Girl He Loved By Adelaide Stirling 1175--They Met By Chance By Ida Reade Allen 1176--The Lovely Constance By Laura Jean Libbey 1177--The Love That Prevailed By Mrs. E. Burke Collins 1178--Trixie’s Honor By Geraldine Fleming 1179--Driven from Home By Wenona Gilman 1180--The Arm of the Law By Evelyn Malcolm 1181--A Will Of Her Own By Ida Reade Allen 1182--Pity--Not Love By Laura Jean Libbey 1183--Brave Barbara By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1184--Lady Gay’s Martyrdom By Charlotte May Kingsley 1185--Barriers of Stone By Wenona Gilman 1186--A Useless Sacrifice By Emma Garrison Jones 1187--When We Two Parted By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1188--Far Above Price By Evelvn Malcolm 1189--In Love’s Shadows By Ida Reade Allen 1190--The Veiled Bride By Laura Jean Libbey 1191--The Love Knot By Charlotte May Kingsley 1192--She Scoffed at Love By Mrs. E. Burke Collins 1193--Life’s Richest Jewel By Adelaide Fox Robinson 1194--A Barrier Between Them By Evelyn Malcolm 1195--Too Quickly Judged By Ida Reade Allen 1196--Lotta, the Cloak Model By Laura Jean Libbey 1197--Loved at Last By Geraldine Fleming 1198--They Looked and Loved By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1199--The Wiles of a Siren By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1200--Tricked Into Marriage By Evelyn Malcolm 1201--Her Twentieth Guest By Emma Garrison Jones 1202--From Dreams to Waking By Charlotte M. Kingsley 1203--Sweet Kitty Clover By Laura Jean Libbey 1204--Selina’s Love Story By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1205--The Cost of Pride By Lillian R. Drayton 1206--Love Is a Mystery By Adelaide Fox Robinson 1207--When Love Speaks By Evelyn Malcolm 1208--A Siren’s Heart By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1209--Her Share of Sorrow By Wenona Gilman 1210--The Other Girl’s Lover By Lillian R. Drayton 1211--The Fatal Kiss By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller 1212--A Reckless Promise By Emma Garrison Jones 1213--Without Name or Wealth By Ida Reade Allen 1214--At Her Father’s Bidding By Geraldine Fleming 1215--The Heart of Hetta By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1216--A Dreadful Legacy By Geraldine Fleming

In order that there may be no confusion, we desire to say that the books listed below will be issued during the respective months in New York City and vicinity. They may not reach the readers at a distance promptly, on account of delays in transportation.

To be published in July, 1926.

1217--For Jack’s Sake By Emma Garrison Jones 1218--One Man’s Evil By Effie Adelaide Rowlands

To be published In August, 1926.

1219--Through the Shadows By Adelaide Fox Robinson 1220--The Stolen Bride By Evelyn Malcolm

To be published in September, 1926.

1221--When the Heart Hungers By Charlotte M. Stanley 1222--The Love that Would Not Die By Ida Reade Allen

To be published in October, 1926.

1223--A King and a Coward By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 1224--A Queen of Song By Geraldine Fleming

To be published in November, 1926.

1225--Shall We Forgive Her? By Charlotte May Kingsley 1226--Face to Face with Love By Lillian R. Drayton 1227--Long Since Forgiven By Mrs. E. Burke Collins

To be published In December, 1926.

1228--As Light as Air By Charlotte M. Stanley 1229--When Man Proposes By Emma Garrison Jones

The Dealer

who handles the STREET & SMITH NOVELS is a man worth patronizing. The fact that he does handle our books proves that he has considered the merits of paper-covered lines, and has decided that the STREET & SMITH NOVELS are superior to all others.

He has looked into the question of the morality of the paper-covered book, for instance, and feels that he is perfectly safe in handing one of our novels to any one, because he has our assurance that nothing except clean, wholesome literature finds its way into our lines.

Therefore, the STREET & SMITH NOVEL dealer is a careful and wise tradesman, and it is fair to assume selects the other articles he has for sale with the same degree of intelligence as he does his paper-covered books.

Deal with the STREET & SMITH NOVEL dealer.

STREET & SMITH CORPORATION 79 Seventh Avenue New York City

Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Table of contents has been added and placed into the public domain by the transcriber.

Due to a typographical error, an incorrect line of text (duplicated from an earlier page) was printed on page 36 of the book used as the basis for this edition. This has been replaced here with the correct phrase: “never left him. What would she say when she learnt” which was sourced from an overseas serialization of the work under the title _Married in Haste_, with the correct text located in the Wednesday, April 5, 1899 issue of _The Maryborough Chronicle_ newspaper.