AND WHEN LOVE IS BLIND
A THRILLING STORY OF HOW LOVE
PLAYS UPON THE HEART AND SOUL
BY ALICE MAUD MEADOWS
Written for Alexander’s Magazine
Chapter I.
“I wish,” Nora Desmond colored ever so slightly, “one of you would tell me what Mr. Le Strange is like!”
Mrs. Desmond and Nancy Desmond looked at one another sharply, something like a warning glance passed between them.
“Like?” Mrs. Desmond repeated, faintly.
“Yes—like,” Nora returned. “I know he’s tall and big. I know he has a pleasant voice, a merry laugh; I know”—her strange, pretty eyes grew shy, though they saw nothing, never had seen anything since her fourth birthday—“he is the kindest man in the whole wide world; but I want to know what his face is like—that’s natural, isn’t it, since”—a trifle defiantly—“since we are such good friends?”