PAGE.CHAPTER I.“If Only——”5CHAPTER II.“Heiress of Fate”8CHAPTER III.A Dastardly Plot13CHAPTER IV.Why Did She Do It?16CHAPTER V.The Reason Why23CHAPTER VI.A Dream of Roses29CHAPTER VII.At the Dread Hour of Midnight34CHAPTER VIII.“From That Spot by Horror Haunted”40CHAPTER IX.“Oh! Those Happy Moments Spent Together!”44CHAPTER X.“Sleeping, I Dreamed, Love!”49CHAPTER XI.Plighted52CHAPTER XII.“When I Am Married!” Cried Floy55CHAPTER XIII.In the Meshes of Her Hungry Fate57CHAPTER XIV.Thrown on the World63CHAPTER XV.“As Proud and as Pretty as a Princess”66CHAPTER XVI.A Cruel Persecution71CHAPTER XVII.The Fair Dead Face He Had Loved So Well75CHAPTER XVIII.“Cupid”79CHAPTER XIX.The Beresford Pride82CHAPTER XX.Alva’s Disappointment88CHAPTER XXI.“Where is She Now?”92CHAPTER XXII.“Oh, My Son, My Son!”95CHAPTER XXIII.“You Wicked, Wicked Girl!” Cried the Midnight Visitor102CHAPTER XXIV.“A Royal Road to Fortune”106CHAPTER XXV.How Those Tender Letters to Another Must Have Stabbed Maybelle’s Heart!110CHAPTER XXVI.“I Will Sell My Life and Honor Dearly!” Cried the Maddened Girl116CHAPTER XXVII.At Bay119CHAPTER XXVIII.Another Intruder122CHAPTER XXIX.“Oh, How Blest I Am!” Cried Floy125CHAPTER XXX.“’Tis Home Where’er the Heart Is”128CHAPTER XXXI.Near to Death134CHAPTER XXXII.“The Silence of a Broken Heart”137CHAPTER XXXIII.Pride Brought Low140CHAPTER XXXIV.Too Late!142CHAPTER XXXV.“He is Fickle and False—My Lover Whom I Trusted So Fondly!—How Can I Bear This Pain and Live?”146CHAPTER XXXVI.“Not Till Love Comes”152CHAPTER XXXVII.Searching in Vain155CHAPTER XXXVIII.A Bower of Roses158CHAPTER XXXIX.A Little Hand161CHAPTER XL.A Startling Revelation163CHAPTER XLI.Joy and Sorrow166CHAPTER XLII.A Young Girl’s Pride170CHAPTER XLIII.Maybelle Writes a Letter173CHAPTER XLIV.But One Chance in a Hundred180CHAPTER XLV.“Hope Deferred Maketh the Heart Sick”184CHAPTER XLVI.“The House is Haunted”188CHAPTER XLVII.“Life Is So Sad!” Cried Floy192CHAPTER XLVIII.A Strange Romance198CHAPTER XLIX.“Something Terrible!”203CHAPTER L.The Last Victim209CHAPTER LI.“Just One Kiss!”212CHAPTER LII.All That Floy Had Longed for in Other Days Was Hers Now—Lucky Little Mortal!217