The Mystery of Suicide Place — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The Mystery of Suicide Place
John Stuart Mill · en
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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