Heart to heart

It was early springtime, with the glad sunshine filling the air, a warm breeze blowing, the sky without a cloud, and the birds singing merrily as they flitted among the trees be...

In the lower hallway of the Rosemore, as the house in which Allen Chesterbrook had his bachelor apartments was called, stood Jimmie Neirney, the young man’s faithful valet, but...

A moment later the coroner came in, accompanied by the policeman and another gentleman, who afterward proved to be a detective. The coroner was about to admit into the room half...

Whatever sensation might have been produced by the refusal of Henry Cross to go into the particulars of his quarrel with Allen Chesterbrook was cut short by the entrance of Colo...

Henry Cross walked on until the edge of the lake was reached and the greater number of private cottages and hotels were left behind. He was in a turmoil of conflicting emotions,...

“DEAR MISS WILLOWBY: Even at this, the last moment, I feel it necessary to write to you, breaking off our engagement forever. You must know what pain this gives me; I would rath...

So those who had testified were called upon to do so again. This time the questions asked were more numerous, and Henry Cross was kept on the rack a full hour. But no additional...

Four days after he had been found dead in his rooms, Allen Chesterbrook was buried. The funeral ceremony was conducted at the very church where he was to have been married to Ma...

On the day of Allen Chesterbrook’s funeral Mrs. Callum took in another boarder. She had waited in vain for the appearance of the young lady Mr. Ulmer had spoken of sending, and...

Spring had gone, and summer was almost over. Yet the season at Lakeview was at its height still, and down among the hotels and boarding houses the tragic death of Allen Chesterb...

With a low, hoarse whistle the afternoon boat from Mackanack Junction swept slowly up to the wharf at Lakeview. There was a crowd on hand, anxiously awaiting relatives and frien...

On the following morning when Maud came down to breakfast she looked so pale and haggard that Alice Devigney’s heart smote her. Yet she dared not say anything, for the colonel w...

“She said Brooklyn, and that’s all. I don’t care, either; but it was a shame to leave my house without warning,” and Mrs. Callum marched off in a state of resentment.

When Frank Barton departed, it was plainly evident to any one that Jack Hull was not in a cheerful mood. He smoked three strong cigars in rapid succession, excitedly chewing the...

When, long after sunset, Maud Willowby returned home with Henry Cross, the young man was in too happy a state of mind to confront Colonel Willowby or Alice Devigney. Maud had re...

After waiting ten minutes to be certain that Maud Willowby had gone too far to catch him, Henry Cross stalked hurriedly up to the cottage and knocked on the door. The elderly wo...

Jack Hull had gone back to cigars that were far from strong, and that meant a good deal. He smoked strong cigars only when perplexed, or when doing what he called “some tall thi...

A great change had come over Henry Cross. His step was no longer elastic, the peculiar smile that lighted up his face so often was gone, and he appeared old and haggard. “Must b...

Henry Cross was compelled to smile in spite of the serious and weighty thoughts that were engrossing his mind. He stopped short in his pacing up and down the office.

How he got back to his rooms Henry Cross could not tell. He was in a fever of excitement--and despair. Never before in his life had he felt so utterly dejected, so broken in spi...

Little did those who looked at Henry Cross on that morning as he stood up to listen to the reading of the indictment against him realize all that had passed through the young ma...

The colonel, who had at that instant been looking in another direction, could not account for the unexpected change in his daughter’s demeanor. He gazed at her in amazement; the...

In that woman who skulked along the hedges and the bushes, by the back road that led down to the lake front, no one would have recognized the tall and stately Maud Willowby, the...

“I am not denying them, Dick Harley. What would be the use to deny them--to you? But, let me tell you something.” She clutched him violently by the coat collar. “If you saw all...

In a very thoughtful mood, Violet Harding walked to the office in which she was employed. What a fortunate escape she had had from the clutches of that detective, and all throug...

It was Maud Willowby who spoke. She sat up in bed, propped by numerous pillows, her thin, white hands clasped together and a strange, exciting fire burning in her sunken eyes. I...

It will not take many words to bring our narrative to a close. The sensation in Lakeview the next day, indeed, throughout the entire country, was tremendous. Here was a condemne...