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 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 12 AN UNBIDDEN GUEST by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Did the strange, mysterious influences ever about and around us, though beyond our ken, bear to Dallas Bain the yearning heart cry of his deserted love? Did they bring him back…
Chapter 11 SHE COULD NEVER FORGET by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Daisie was very busy the next morning packing her trunk, when Aunt Alice came upstairs, bringing Mrs. Fleming’s card. “It’s that pretty little lady from Sea View, Mr. Sherwood’s cousin.…
Chapter 10 DAISIE’S DESPAIR by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Royall Sherwood’s surprise and chagrin were beyond expression when he returned to Gull Beach and learned all that had happened in the two days of his absence. For Daisie, in her desperation,…
Chapter 9 SHE MUST KEEP THE SECRET by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER No telling how long Annette might have lain undiscovered in the rose arbor had not Letty Green, as she went up the steps of the great house, heard the…