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Title: Kidnapped at the Altar
or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain
Author: Laura Jean Libbey
Release Date: January 15, 2010 [eBook #30980]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Laura Jean Libbey's New $10,000 Story
KIDNAPPED AT THE ALTAR
Or
The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain
The Latest and Most Thrilling Story Fresh from the Pen of the
Peoples' Favorite Author,
MISS LAURA JEAN LIBBEY
The Arthur Westbrook Company
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Copyright, 1909,
--By--
The Arthur Westbrook Company.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERS PAGE
I. Some Young Girls Find Love So Sweet 5
II. Fate Is Against Some People 14
III. When Those We Love Drift Away 21
IV. The Girl Who Plays at Flirtation 27
V. The Mysterious House on Wau-Winet Island 33
VI. The Letters That Ceased to Come 39
VII. Every Young Girl Would Like a Lover 45
VIII. A Mother's Desperate Scheme 50
IX. Gerelda's Escape From Wau-Winet Island 55
X. What Is Life Without Love? 60
XI. Gerelda Could Have Saved Her 67
XII. Out in the Cold, Bleak World 73
XIII. "I Love Jessie With Heart and Soul!" 78
XIV. "Do Not Leave Me!" 83
XV. "Hubert Cares For Me No Longer!" 90
XVI. What Ought a Girl To Do? 94
XVII. Love Is Bitter 99
XVIII. Wedding Bells Out of Tune 112
XIX. The
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