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Vol. 5L
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‘THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SORNES FROM THE STORY OF (‘THE PRETTIEST O1RI
AL EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED IN THE ‘APPALLING pisast:
awneet,?
ERS OF TH!
AS DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER XIV.
E ST, LOUIS TORNADO.
“The fierce, roaring, swirling wind caught Nat and drew him into its. vortex, leaving’ Muriel unscathed, stricken with deadly fear, as she saw her lover tora from her side.”
THEY ARE TAUTAFUL REPRODUCTIONS OF
~ CHAPTER I
“There's a divinity that
ng how them Low
It was the afternoon of the Twenty- Sorenth of
May, that most fateful of days—that‘I, Julia
Edwards, first behold the great city of St. Louis.
I n an extensive Western trip, but
cba me to delay my stay in St. Loni
reonally, several of characte
fo appear in my story and who kindl
gave me the facts in their lives during the period
ri tis soldom an Author gots
|, inside data o mance from
well ki t there is ‘nothin
THE ROMANCE OF MURIEL DENE
A Thrilling Story of the St. Louis Cyclone :
BY JULIA EDWARDS
Avruon oF “Mapcar MerRiset.” “Tax Littux Wipow,” “‘Tarxu's Lovers,”
es
A STATEMENT BY THE AUTHOR.
| urilling Interest the occurrences of every-day
lite.
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siartling cet qihich will be developed in
led
Gate,”?
you s6e
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in ‘account for sume of the
come to
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very
occupied
ag companion
throngh
rendered me a slight service, and this | rom
became’ very 8
carthad od wetted Be of “the Protti
‘and
real lif
that has ever been written which surpass oy t
nances I ha\
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fow passing comments, and finally to the
following « conversations
The Prettiest Girl Awheel= ==:
points of i
Panto you it not ioat # St, Louis is
worthy: Tam very atxious te
fan author, and traveling
Test, and partly for certain facts and ful
lated, and his fa
cul
up, cans some recollection
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colored piece of pr
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with wrist
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‘a much longer journey
‘years.
nui carte Y eee thie
in ozton
shoul seo the Hou ‘oars Str
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reus, Weare ‘poivg to the it
replat ‘ city of the Golden
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LT have, But Jost rete ifeom "there ator a6
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m @ thorough St.
at yon do not think
8 Gardens, and
not
it a visit; but
partly for
formation
face seemed to
at you,
loli af ee:
case Lie -
i, Cage 8 little cream
AS Dene,
Attorney ind Couuealor’ ‘at Law,
Thanded him my @td in turn,
truth to admit I's much gratified at
= Julia Eawardt
‘the Oper
a friend
her Woks,
you know, Min! Eaw,
hav
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ver come
1
Really,
r with Several
and it is only
Tam delighted.
present you o'my'wifeand offer the toupitalley of
3.
thanked bim most heartily for this
action, and assured bi that an author could our
but feel proud of
acquaintance of
rtunit;
that
to renew the
ad been ny
warda,
moment," [
across,
But what could Isay? What words of comfort
could I offer to ber in her terrible bereavement?
d told her
I would bea
followed,
lawyers meet with many in our careers.
in connection with my adopted daughter,
Muriel; sho isin reality. the Relross of prions,
and, ie is to proots ee this that 1 ho
romise you, Paes a
honor of @ visit to
illing romance
as your hosts of readers | going |
iat be rt Jibbted
"MThen I iors you I Till accept your kind
shapes oot ends, rough he
this avioity, his unseen haa
invitation, for am too work to| It murt have been id
ink of anissing such an cpportantty y.? of fate tbat led me to move and act as I did on
Alas! “The laid plans of ‘Bice and men al al dayele, this all too true and thrill-
nev:
‘er’ been written, and my man:
fair readers and dear friends would Dever bave
known the v brief_ but spect and patheti
romance in the life of Muriel
gang aft aglee.” Lit did I dream, then; that
should vev into the kindly face of this
"ele dd shine in the peace of
‘i moment, tbat ere the sun should arise ou
shottior Jays'Iwas to bea witness of one of the
most terrible sights that ever sent a thrill of
jorror creeping up and down one’s back.
Every girl has some romance in her life just as
caaPrEn i.
©] BELIEVE THAT FATE WILL BRIN
EVERY GIRL, AND A MAIDEX’S HEART 18 VERY
70.
sure as every rose has its thorn.
sce this over and over again every day,and| QUICK 70 RrsvoxD, 70, Lovm, Wits
the fact is borne in upon me now that I'bave| RIGHT Max WOOES HER.
About seven miles,
heard from the lips of my heroine, Muriel Dene, as the flies,
sity of Be. ute ‘avout tmelve tales by rhe the
iy rt
the story of her
fe'ts eas than w week ago now since Providence
led assistance of one of the ‘unforvunate
sufferers from the terrible cyctone in St.
You can rhaps best imagine my sorpriae
qrhea Learned that tho young Mand beautitul girl
I found in such distress, 3 none other than the
adopted danghter of th “hindly old man I met
upon the train,
“<Sturiel Deno,?? T exclaimed, when she told me
me, “and your father was Thomas Dene?" | the ver
es, ¥es,’? with a convulsive sol few places, if a1 ight fe
nd your father and mother, what bas be- tea bonded a Eine etait and be-
come of them?” T asked, an awful fear knocking hose assembled
at my dey iu enrly spring of the present year—it
a * she moaned, car | was just Attar the last snow fall’had disappeared
para, my dew a Fost to me 2 forever, vever}and the crocus and the anet none beran to put
ok opon their faces again even in death— | forth their biosoms at the A
ea [loved them so much.*! viving life in nature—there was ‘Unusual st ae ‘and
Ste buried ter face in my lap. and sobbed until] eommotion among
at
road which the cou
‘igh upon a. pictures
ie the ‘Mlssssippr R River
jeminary for young
clusive institutions of
Soded bluff. overlookin
is ivonted the Carondelet Ber
ia
It is one of the most ex
