She has just passed through a tragedy which has left an impress upon her whole life;
Most wonderful of all, she is the only American girl who has ever refused a titled lover.
This is her life story, told for the first time:—
Chapter I.—Death:
A woman's scream of agony!
A strange scene, like an alchemist's den, the light of falling day reflected from test tubes and crucibles, revealing in dark corners uncouth appliances, queer diagrams, strange odours. Upon the floor the inert figure of the foremost of New York's chemists; above his prostrate form, wild-eyed with horror at seeing his dramatic death, a beautiful woman, the most beautiful in the world.
This was the end of Prof. Carl Darmstetter;
This was how the legacy of science came to Helen Winship.
To carry it out, she has refused a title.
Chapter II.—Love: