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 Collision--The Pilot at the Wheel 121 XX. Love is a Poisoned Arrow in Some Hearts 127 XXI. So Hard to Face the World Alone 134 XXII. "Permit Me to Escort You Home" 143 XXIII. Jessie Bain Enters the House of Secrets 152 XXIV. "Oh, To Sleep My Life Away!" 157 XXV. "If I But Knew Where My Love Is!" 163 XXVI. Hubert Varrick Rescues Jessie Bain 170 XXVII. "I Would Rather Walk By Your Side" 178 XXVIII. A Mother's Plea 185 XXIX. Returning Good For Evil 197 XXX. A Terrible Revelation 207 XXXI. The Midnight Visitor 218 XXXII. Captain Frazier Plots Again 227 XXXIII. In the Toils 236
Kidnapped at The Altar
OR
The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain
CHAPTER I.
SOME YOUNG GIRLS FIND LOVE SO SWEET; TO OTHERS IT PROVES A CURSE.
It was a magnificent evening, in balmy June, on the far-famed St. Lawrence.
The steamer "St. Lawrence" was making her nightly search-light excursion down the bay, laden to her utmost capacity.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Kidnapped at the Altar by Laura Jean Libbey
- 2: The girl is 'Saucy Jessie Bain
- 3: Throngs of beautiful women crowded the broad piazzas
- 4: My cousin always says 'It's good enough for Jessie Bain
- 5: Captain Frazier is a delightful companion
- 6: The captain rang the bell furiously
- 7: She was gasping for breath dying
- 8: Northrup was too excited to leave her seat
- 9: Was she Hubert Varrick's bride or not
- 10: Send Jessie Bain to school for a year
- 11: It touched Hubert Varrick deeply to see how she clung to him
- 12: Never once coming in contact with the people hereabouts
- 13: 'There is no young lady on Wau Winet Island
- 14: The mysterious house on lonely wau winet island
- 15: Captain Frazier frowned darkly
- 16: Captain Frazier looked troubled
- 17: Gerelda Northrup neither spoke nor stirred
- 18: Then she sent a note to Captain Frazier
- 19: If you turn Jessie Bain from your door
- 20: Varrick would have liked Jessie Bain
- 21: She has not been plunged into gloom yet
- 22: Frank Moray had risen to his feet
- 23: Hubert Varrick listened with interest
- 24: Gerelda's escape from wau winet island
- 25: Nurse Henderson held up her hands in wild alarm
- 26: And the soft frou frou of rustling skirts behind her
- 27: Captain Frazier was right Hubert Varrick had forgotten her
- 28: While Jessie Bain heard it with dismay
- 29: Or my name is not Gerelda Northrup
- 30: Varrick turned to the housekeeper
- 31: Jessie saw them all file slowly out of the room
- 32: All in vain Jessie threw herself at her feet
- 33: Jessie saw a closely written document lying beneath it
- 34: But not one word did she mention of Jessie Bain
- 35: The beautiful bracelet you already have
- 36: Jessie Bain is no longer under this roof
- 37: I am going to find Jessie Bain
- 38: And Captain Frazier was there alone
- 39: With Maillard seated beside him
- 40: Northrup was overjoyed to have the sunshine of her home
- 41: Sobbing as if her heart would break
- 42: Northrup sprang to her feet and paced up and down the floor
- 43: Northrup to the effect that Gerelda's lover
- 44: When he arrived at the Northrup mansion
- 45: Jessie was now thoroughly frightened
- 46: Moray received the stranger with motherly kindness
- 47: Jessie stared hard through the window
- 48: At last the day of the Halloween party rolled round
- 49: Jessie Bain never finished the article
- 50: Let us return to Hubert Varrick
- 51: Then followed the sumptuous wedding breakfast
- 52: I am Captain Frazier at your service
- 53: And Hubert Varrick was left standing there alone
- 54: The moment we reach Montreal we part forever
- 55: That was how his wedding journey began
- 56: And the pilot was dead at the wheel
- 57: For an instant Hubert Varrick was startled
- 58: Jessie Bain would sit and watch her by the hour
- 59: She seemed so grateful to Jessie
- 60: Jessie Bain sprung after her pet
- 61: And Jessie Bain found herself thrown homeless
- 62: If the landlady knew that her companion had lost her reason
- 63: The manager was introduced to Jessie Bain
- 64: Tracy that Margaret had lost her reason
- 65: Celey was Manager Morgan's sweetheart last season
- 66: Frowning darkly at Celey Dunbar
- 67: Discretion seemed the better part of valor to Jessie
- 68: Jessie stood there for a moment like one stupefied
- 69: Jessie bain enters the house of secrets
- 70: When she met Harriet again in the corridor
- 71: Let me present you to Miss Bain Miss Bain
- 72: Rosamond would seek her downy couch
- 73: It mattered little to Jessie Bain
- 74: Rosamond Lee was standing by the window
- 75: Rosamond Lee was in a towering rage
- 76: With a nervous hand Rosamond flung open the door
- 77: Hubert varrick rescues jessie bain
- 78: And hurried over to the drug store
- 79: That consciousness came back to Jessie Bain
- 80: Jessie Bain tried to collect her scattered senses
- 81: And her whereabouts was then unknown
- 82: Jessie Bain read the letter through
- 83: Jessie raised her tear stained face from her hands
- 84: When the nurse left Jessie Bain
- 85: Beating the air distressedly with her jeweled hands
- 86: By this time Hubert Varrick had broken the seal
- 87: For a moment Hubert Varrick hesitated
- 88: As Hubert Varrick leaned out of the window
- 89: Jessie raised her lovely blue eyes and looked at him
- 90: You are innocent innocent as a little child
- 91: Hubert complied with her request
- 92: Jessie herself was stricken down
- 93: Nor had she ever seen Hubert Varrick since
- 94: Which Rosamond Lee's maid venomously returned
- 95: As Rosamond calculated it would be
- 96: Bearing with it Rosamond Lee and her companion
- 97: Frazier turned impatiently to her
- 98: Bidding Rosamond Lee and Captain Frazier a hasty good bye
- 99: Frazier shrugged his shoulders
- 100: I have known Hubert Varrick for long years
- 101: Disclosing as he spoke a ruby velvet case
- 102: And in the semi darkness he beheld Hubert Varrick
- 103: Each laid a hand on Hubert Varrick's shoulder
- 104: Could not have startled Jessie Bain more
- 105: We must return to Captain Frazier
- 106: And Captain Frazier took his seat at the head of the table
- 107: And when Frazier left the red brick house on the side street
- 108: This decision made Captain Frazier desperate
- 109: Jessie Bain dipped it in the ink
- 110: The cabman hurried to a watering trough a few feet distant
- 111: Muttering excitedly 'Heaven save poor Master Hubert
- 112: The butler sprang forward to seize the man and save him
- 113: Jessie Bain was sitting upon the settle
- 114: Take me to Hubert Varrick at once
- 115: Sweet Jessie Bain never forgot her
- 116: These books are bound in cloth