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[Illustration: Cover of Dainty's Cruel Rivals by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh
Miller]


DAINTY'S CRUEL RIVALS
OR
THE FATAL BIRTHDAY

BY
MRS. ALEX. McVEIGH MILLER


HART SERIES NO. 88

COPYRIGHT 1898 BY GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS

Published by
THE ARTHUR WESTBROOK COMPANY,
Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A.




INDEX


CHAPTER                                                 PAGE
       I  "A Sweet Girl Graduate"                          3
      II  "The Prettiest Girl in the Room"                13
     III  The Happiest Day She Had Ever Known             19
      IV  The Old Monk                                    22
       V  "Only a Dream"                                  26
      VI  Love's Rosy Dawn                                33
     VII  "The Trail of the Serpent"                      38
    VIII  The Ellsworth Honor                             42
      IX  "All That's Bright Must Fade"                   48
       X  "The Grim Fates"                                56
      XI  Love's Presentiments                            64
     XII  A Maddened Lover                                69
    XIII  Sad Forebodings                                 75
     XIV  Dainty Would Never Forget That Day              81
      XV  Black Mammy's Story                             87
     XVI  The Ghost Alarm                                 91
    XVII  The Night Before the Wedding                    97
   XVIII  The Wedding Morn                               101
     XIX  A Madman's Deed