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

CHAPTER I.

SOME YOUNG GIRLS FIND LOVE SO SWEET; TO OTHERS IT PROVES A CURSE.

It was a magnificent evening, in balmy June, on the far-famed St.
Lawrence.

The steamer "St. Lawrence" was making her nightly search-light excursion
down the bay, laden to her utmost capacity.

The passengers were all summer tourists, light of heart and gay of
speech; all save one, Hubert Varrick, a young and handsome man, dressed
in the height of fashion, who held aloof from the rest, and who stood
leaning carelessly against the taffrail.

The steamer was making its way in and out of the thousand green isles,
the great light from the pilot-house suddenly throwing a broad,
illuminating flash first on this and then on that.

As the light swept across land and water from point to point, Varrick
lightly laughed aloud at the ludicrous incidents, such as the sudden
flashing of the light's piercing rays on some lover's nook, where two
souls indulging in but one thought were ruthlessly awakened from sweet
seclusion to the most glaring publicity, and at many a novel sight,
little dreaming that at every turn of the ponderous wheels he was
nearing his destiny.

"Where are we now?" he inquired of a deck-hand.

"At Fisher's Landing, sir."

The words had scarcely left his lips ere a radiant flood of ele