Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * THE MYSTERY _of_ SUICIDE PLACE _By Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller_ HART SERIES No. 40 (Printed in the United States of America) PUBLISHED BY THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY CLEVELAND, U. S. A. CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. “If Only----” 5 CHAPTER II. “Heiress of Fate” 8 CHAPTER III. A Dastardly Plot 13 CHAPTER IV. Why Did She Do It? 16 CHAPTER V. The Reason Why 23 CHAPTER VI. A Dream of Roses 29 CHAPTER VII. At the Dread Hour of Midnight 34 CHAPTER VIII. “From That Spot by Horror Haunted” 40 CHAPTER IX. “Oh! Those Happy Moments Spent Together!” 44 CHAPTER X. “Sleeping, I Dreamed, Love!” 49 CHAPTER XI. Plighted 52 CHAPTER XII. “When I Am Married!” Cried Floy 55 CHAPTER XIII. In the Meshes of Her Hungry Fate 57 CHAPTER XIV. Thrown on the World 63 CHAPTER XV. “As Proud and as Pretty as a Princess” 66 CHAPTER XVI. A Cruel Persecution 71 CHAPTER XVII. The Fair Dead Face He Had Loved So Well 75 CHAPTER XVIII. “Cupid” 79 CHAPTER XIX. The Beresford Pride 82 CHAPTER XX. Alva’s Disappointment 88 CHAPTER XXI. “Where is She Now?” 92 CHAPTER XXII. “Oh, My Son, My Son!” 95 CHAPTER XXIII. “You Wicked, Wicked Girl!” Cried the Midnight Visitor 102 CHAPTER XXIV. “A Royal Road to Fortune” 106 CHAPTER XXV. How Those Tender Letters to Another Must Have Stabbed Maybelle’s Heart! 110 CHAPTER XXVI. “I Will Sell My Life and Honor Dearly!” Cried the Maddened Girl 116 CHAPTER XXVII. At Bay 119 CHAPTER XXVIII. Another Intruder 122 CHAPTER XXIX. “Oh, How Blest I Am!” Cried Floy 125 CHAPTER XXX. “’Tis Home Where’er the Heart Is” 128 CHAPTER XXXI. Near to Death 134 CHAPTER XXXII. “The Silence of a Broken Heart” 137 CHAPTER XXXIII. Pride Brought Low 140 CHAPTER XXXIV. Too Late! 142 CHAPTER XXXV. “He is Fickle and False--My Lover Whom I Trusted So Fondly!--How Can I Bear This Pain and Live?” 146 CHAPTER XXXVI. “Not Till Love Comes” 152 CHAPTER XXXVII. Searching in Vain 155