Category: Novels
It was the close of the hot season in San Diego, and the thunderous clouds that hung over the island rendered the atmosphere still more oppressive. Liz, the Doctor’s daughter, stood at the open door of their leaf-thatched bungalow, gazing out into the starless night, and wonde...
It was the close of the hot season in San Diego, and the thunderous clouds that hung over the island rendered the atmosphere still more oppressive. Liz, the Doctor’s daughter, s...
3. CHAPTER II.Before she turned her head to greet him, Liz knew _who_ had entered the bungalow. The marvellous instinct of love made her _feel_ his presence, before she perceived it, and this...
4. CHAPTER III.As she re-entered the sitting-room, she passed at once to the entrance which led on to the verandah. All the windows were wide open, and the shaded lamp upon the table, round wh...
5. CHAPTER IV.Liz stood where he had left her, awestruck and bewildered. All her private trouble of that evening--the sickening doubts she had conceived of her lover’s fidelity, and her fears...
6. CHAPTER V.The overseer of Beauregard occupied another bungalow on the plantation, a perfect bower of beauty, which, whilst lying close to the White House, was entirely concealed from obse...
7. CHAPTER VI.A week had passed away since Maraquita Courtney had entered the Doctor’s bungalow, and the moment that Liz dreaded had arrived--they were to meet again. Never once had she enter...
8. CHAPTER VII.Mr and Mrs Courtney could not sufficiently express their satisfaction at receiving their daughter back again. Maraquita was their only child. She had never had a brother nor a s...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Meanwhile Lizzie Fellows, unconscious of her lover’s infidelity, sat up the livelong night, cradling his deserted infant in her arms. Whilst the members of the White House were...