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NEW EAGLE SERIES No. 739 15 CENTS
THE STRENGTH OF LOVE
STREET & SMITH PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.
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The Strength of Love;
OR,
LOVE IS LORD OF ALL
"When We Two Parted," "Lady Gay's Pride," "Sworn to Silence," "Eric Braddon's Love," and many other romances of American life published exclusively in the EAGLE and NEW EAGLE SERIES, each of which is of the most intense interest.
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The Strength of Love
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THE STRENGTH OF LOVE.
RIVALS IN LOVE.
When Dallas Bain and Royall Sherwood, with the dashing young widow, Mrs. Fleming, drove down the village street in their fine landau that summer afternoon, Daisie Bell stood on the steps of her aunt's cottage, plucking the purple wistaria blooms from the vines above her head, and the picture she made in her youth and grace stayed in both the men's hearts till they died.
Just a slip of a girl--perhaps seventeen or eighteen--gowned very simply, in white, with lavender ribbons at throat and waist; but her figure was grace and symmetry itself; and her face--well, men have died for faces less fair than hers, with its dusk-violet eyes, blue in the light, black in the shade, under the fringed curtain of jetty lashes that contrasted so vividly with the living gold of her hair as it swept in loose waves over her shoulders.
Both the young men gazed at this charming vision in frank delight, and as the unknown beauty and the gay little widow exchanged formal bows, exclaimed simultaneously:
"Who is that beautiful girl?"
Mrs. Fleming frowned jealously, bit her red lips, and answered, with some asperity:
"What geese men are! Always caught by theatricals! Couldn't you both see that the bold thing was just posing for your benefit?"
"I don't know a thing about him, except that he's clever and handsome, and seems to have plenty of money; but I like him immensely, so I brought him here with me, and if you're not pleased you can just ship us both when you get tired," Royall said coolly to his cousin, who answered gayly:
"I'll never get tired, I assure you; the dear boy is too charming."
That was ten days ago, and as time went by she found him more charming than ever, though there was about him a careless insouciance, a cynical indifference to her wiles, that piqued her into deeper earnestness, so that by the end of the first week she was passionately in love, and using every feminine art to bring him to her feet.
And, never having loved before, despite several pronounced flirtations, she was desperately in earnest.
At only twenty-five, she was the widow of an old man whom she had married for his money when she was only nineteen years old. Three years later he obligingly died, and left her the mistress of half a million, which she was enjoying in royal fashion. A selfish, careless little beauty, she had never felt the great passion of life till she met Dallas Bain, whose large, dark, flashing eyes had pierced her heart in a moment with love's keen arrow.
She set herself to win him without a thought of defeat, for she was very pretty in a doll-like fashion, petite, with turquoise-blue eyes, and crinkly flaxen hair always in the most picturesque disorder. Not a fear of rivalry crossed her mind, for although she had several young girls as guests, she had been careful to invite only those who were plain-looking enough to serve as a foil to her own beauty. To Daisie Bell she had never given a thought till this moment, when, on their drive, the coachman had turned into Temple Street just to vary the route, and her visitors had seen the young girl in her wondrous beauty, that, once seen, could never be forgotten.
What a careless encounter it seemed, yet one fraught with fate!
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