Chapter I: Front Matter

Laura Jean Libbey's New $10,000 Story

KIDNAPPED AT THE ALTAR

Or

The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain

The Latest and Most Thrilling Story Fresh from the Pen of the Peoples' Favorite Author,

MISS LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

The Arthur Westbrook Company Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Copyright, 1909, --By-- The Arthur Westbrook Company.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS PAGE

I. Some Young Girls Find Love So Sweet 5
II. Fate Is Against Some People 14
III. When Those We Love Drift Away 21
IV. The Girl Who Plays at Flirtation 27
V. The Mysterious House on Wau-Winet Island 33
VI. The Letters That Ceased to Come 39
VII. Every Young Girl Would Like a Lover 45
VIII. A Mother's Desperate Scheme 50
IX. Gerelda's Escape From Wau-Winet Island 55
X. What Is Life Without Love? 60
XI. Gerelda Could Have Saved Her 67
XII. Out in the Cold, Bleak World 73
XIII. "I Love Jessie With Heart and Soul!" 78
XIV. "Do Not Leave Me!" 83
XV. "Hubert Cares For Me No Longer!" 90
XVI. What Ought a Girl To Do? 94
XVII. Love Is Bitter 99
XVIII. Wedding Bells Out of Tune 112
XIX. The Collision--The Pilot at the Wheel 121
XX. Love is a Poisoned Arrow in Some Hearts 127
XXI. So Hard to Face the World Alone 134
XXII. "Permit Me to Escort You Home" 143
XXIII. Jessie Bain Enters the House of Secrets 152
XXIV. "Oh, To Sleep My Life Away!" 157
XXV. "If I But Knew Where My Love Is!" 163
XXVI. Hubert Varrick Rescues Jessie Bain 170
XXVII. "I Would Rather Walk By Your Side" 178
XXVIII. A Mother's Plea 185
XXIX. Returning Good For Evil 197
XXX. A Terrible Revelation 207
XXXI. The Midnight Visitor 218
XXXII. Captain Frazier Plots Again 227
XXXIII. In the Toils 236

Kidnapped at The Altar

OR

The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain