Laurel Vane, a young woman, is left an orphan after her father dies unexpectedly. She then finds one last article he had written before his sickness and realizes that publishing it would help with the money required for his funeral. She goes to his publisher, Mr. Gordon, to hand in the article and receive the payment. There she meets Beatrix Gordon, who helps her with the paper and, in return, gets Laurel's promise that she'll do anything for her. The novel presents an exciting story about the events that follow in the lives of both women. This fiction by American novelist Mrs. Alex. McVeigh...

A wind from the sea-cool, salty, and delicious-came up to Bay View House, and stole in with the moonlight to the lace-draped windows of the parlor where a crumpled little figure crouched in a forlorn white heap on the wide, old-fashioned window sill, sobbing desperately through the plump little hands, in which the girlish face was hidden.

An Old Man's Darling is a story of two lovers whose fate never allows them to be together. More than fate, this separation results from the vicious scheming of the antagonists to torment the poor lovers till the very end. The story follows a series of unfortunate events that evoke the reader's sentiment. These events are presented so realistically that one can almost imagine them happening in reality. American author, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller writes with such a beautiful style that one gets captivated by her words. She makes her readers stay till the end of the story to know what happens to...