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.

Her eyes Would match the southern skies When southern skies are bluest; Her heart Will always, take its part Where southern hearts are truest.
Such youth, With all its charms, forsooth. Alas! too well I know it!— Will claim A song of love and fame Sung by some southern poet.
It's a perfect godsend, this invitation! cried Olive Peyton, with unwonted rapture in her cold voice.
Yes, indeed! assented her chum and cousin, Ela Craye, joyfully. I have wondered over and over how we were going to buy our summer clothes and spare enough money for a trip, and here comes Aunt Judith's invitation to her country home just in the nick of time.
And how lucky, to think of her step-son, Lovelace Ellsworth, getting home at last from Europe! Either you or I must capture him, Ela! added Olive, eagerly, her black eyes sparkling with the hope of getting a rich husband.
But Ela Craye snapped shortly:
We might—if only she had not invited Dainty Chase.