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Cliquot. BY KATE LEE FERGUSON. “ Cliquot ,” a new love romance from the pen of Kate Lee Ferguson, a rising young Southern authoress of the Amélie Rives school, is full of passion, piquancy and breath…
A SHORT HEAT. Another jockey had been killed on the race-course. The utmost excitement prevailed. The magnificent animal which had caused the death reared and plunged in the hands of a groom, his foa…
A DEVIL’S LAUGH. As a bright red streak on the horizon foretold the coming of a beautiful day in early spring, Neil Emory galloped along the dusty road to the race-course, and, turning in at its gate…
SHE WHO INFLAMES WITH LOVE. Cassandra Clovis arose late the next morning, and, after a refreshing bath, made an elaborate toilet and went out for a drive. She stopped on her return and brought home t…
“OUT FROM THE GOLDEN DAY.” Yes, Neil Emory was a married man and a man with a scandal, but a scandal so hushed and screened by law and friends as to be almost forgotten. One day the beautiful woman w…
PRETTY GOOD ARMS. Dead! Gone forever “out from the golden day.” Just the release he had dreamed of, perhaps wished for, yet hardly prayed for. Men seldom do that; only women drop down on their knees …
BACKWARDS. Sunday night, and I have three pictures to show you. First, let us glance at the open windows of Cassandra’s reception-room. The vine-clad balcony, behind which waved soft lace curtains, a…
MONDAY. The eventful day had come, that day looked forward to for over a week by all the city of N——. With opaline splendor, the sun rose over the undulating suburbs and fell on spire and field. It p…
“MY BEAUTIFUL! MY BEAUTIFUL!” Yes, Gwendoline rode the stallion, rode to victory the colt she herself had reared. A few years back, when her father lived, he had owned the mother of Cliquot, and, fro…
THE CHINK OF GOLD. When the carriage containing Gwendoline and her companion had passed the outer gate, Neil Emory started forward like one mad, and hastened towards the highway. “Where are you going…
