Virgie's Inheritance
By Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
Author of "Nora," "Trixy,"
"Earle Wayne's Nobility,"
"Helen's Victory,"
"A True Aristocrat," Etc.
Copyright, 1887, 1888, 1891
By Street & Smith
Virgie's Inheritance.
Chapter I.
Introduces our Heroine and a Benighted Traveler.
"Virgie, I shall have to give up the race."
"Papa!"
"My strength is failing rapidly. It was all that I could do to creep home to-night. My trembling limbs, my labored breathing, and this dreadful cough, all warn me that I must set my house in order, and make provision for your future."
It was an apparently old man who spoke thus, and yet the years of his life numbered but a little over fifty.