New York

Copyright, 1882, 1889

By Robert Bonner

Renewal granted to Mrs. Charlotte Southworth Lawrence, 1910

“LOVE’S BITTEREST CUP”

Printed by special arrangement with Street & Smith

LOVE’S BITTEREST CUP

CHAPTER I
A WEDDING FROLIC AT FOREST REST

The good folk of our county always seized with gladness any fair excuse for merry-making, especially in the dead of winter, when farm work was slack.

Now the marriage of the popular young doctor with the well-liked young teacher was one of the best of excuses for general outbreak into gayety.