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…
Chapter 8 A TERRIBLE MISTAKE by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER So Annette waited in vain that evening for Dallas Bain to call in reply to her invitation, and she could hardly wait till after breakfast the next morning to rush to…
Chapter 7 TEMPTED TO END IT ALL. by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER Words are too weak to describe the feelings of Dallas Bain as he rushed with frenzied haste from the presence of the beautiful girl so lately worshiped as the…
Chapter 6 I CANNOT GIVE UP MY LOVE by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER But all her pleadings could not move Daisie from her resolve to tell Royall everything and break her engagement. She persisted in it, crying pleadingly: “Oh, if you…
Chapter 5 A CRUEL COQUETTE by Mrs. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER A cry of the bitterest grief and yearning burst from Daisie’s lips as Dallas angrily shook off her hold and rushed from the house. “Oh, Dallas, my love, my darling, come…