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Three years have passed since Virgie settled into a comfortable life in San Francisco, turning her modest beginnings into a respectable home and a thriving routine. She’s built a new circle of friends, including a diligent Swedish housekeeper and a prosperous laundry partnership, and she delights in the simple pleasures of bedtime stories for her young daughter. Yet on a rain‑soaked evening, a mysterious knock at the door shatters the calm, introducing a stranger whose presence feels oddly familiar.
When the visitor finally turns, Virgue recognizes a face she never expected to see again—her own uncle, a figure from a past she thought she had left behind. Their tense reunion hints at old grievances and hidden motives, pulling Virgie into a web of family secrets and unresolved loyalties. As she grapples with the sudden intrusion, listeners are drawn into a story of love, duty, and the delicate threads that bind us to our histories.
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (374K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: A.L. Burt company, 1887, copyright 1888, copyright 1891.
Credits
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2023-03-09
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1843–1926
A prolific American writer of popular fiction, she published as Mrs. Georgie Sheldon and helped shape the world of late-19th-century dime novels and sentimental romance. Her stories were built for suspense, feeling, and page-turning drama, which is why they still make lively reading today.
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