Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * Loved You Better Than You Knew _By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller_ HART SERIES NO. 59 COPYRIGHT 1897 BY GEO. MUNRO’S SONS PUBLISHED BY THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY CLEVELAND, O., U. S. A. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Cupid in the Rain 5 II. One Golden Hour 13 III. The Sweet Old Story 21 IV. Breakers Ahead 25 V. Retrospection 29 VI. Rebellion 34 VII. “The Fates Forbid It” 40 VIII. A Dark Secret 45 IX. A Bunch of Roses 51 X. A Feminine Weakness 55 XI. Cinthia’s Elopement 63 XII. Outwitted 69 XIII. Oh, What a Night! 74 XIV. Parted at the Altar 79 XV. “An Eternal Farewell!” 85 XVI. “Oh, What a Time!” 90 XVII. A Deadly Feud 95 XVIII. “Remember That I Loved You Well” 103 XIX. A Tragic Past 109 XX. Love and Loss 113 XXI. A Quarrel with Fate 119 XXII. When Years Had Fled 127 XXIII. “I Can Not Love Again!” 137 XXIV. “The Pangs That Rend My Heart in Twain!” 144 XXV. “Like an Angel” 147 XXVI. ’Neath Southern Skies 152 XXVII. “Where the Clematis Boughs Intwine” 156 XXVIII. Only Friends 161 XXIX. A Secret Sorrow 169 XXX. Mysteries 172 XXXI. Most Bitterly Bereaved 176 XXXII. “A Cold Gray Life” 181 XXXIII. Puppets of Fate 187 XXXIV. “The Weight of Cruel Years Piled Into One Long Agony” 192 XXXV. Cinthia’s Betrothal 197 XXXVI. An Obstinate Woman 201 XXXVII. Beyond Forgiveness 208 XXXVIII. Her Side of the Story 214 XXXIX. A Mortal Wound 219 XL. A Late Repentance 224 XLI. “The Greed of Gold” 230 XLII. In the Sunshine 235 * * * * * Loved You Better Than You Knew CHAPTER I. CUPID IN THE RAIN.