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Title: Dainty's Cruel Rivals
The Fatal Birthday

Author: Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

Release Date: February 12, 2010 [EBook #31257]

Language: English

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DAINTY'S CRUEL RIVALS
OR
THE FATAL BIRTHDAY

BY
MRS. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER

HART SERIES NO. 88

COPYRIGHT 1898 BY GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS

Published by
THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY,
Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A.

INDEX

CHAPTER PAGE
I "A Sweet Girl Graduate" 3
II "The Prettiest Girl in the Room" 13
III The Happiest Day She Had Ever Known 19
IV The Old Monk 22
V "Only a Dream" 26
VI Love's Rosy Dawn 33
VII "The Trail of the Serpent" 38
VIII The Ellsworth Honor 42
IX "All That's Bright Must Fade" 48
X "The Grim Fates" 56
XI Love's Presentiments 64
XII A Maddened Lover 69
XIII Sad Forebodings 75
XIV Dainty Would Never Forget That Day 81
XV Black Mammy's Story 87
XVI The Ghost Alarm 91
XVII The Night Before the Wedding 97
XVIII The Wedding Morn 101
XIX A Madman's Deed 105
XX The End of the Day 110
XXI Would Heaven Turn Away From Her Wild Appeal 116
XXII Unmasked 120
XXIII Ah! The Pity of It!