Nora

Margaret Dispeau leaves home for a girl's boarding school, hoping to avoid her relentless pursuit by her cousin and suitor Frederick Pontiac, and there Marge befriends Nora McNeal, an forlorn, over-worked charity scholar.Written by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon (Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs 1843???1926), and copyright 1887, 1893, 1900 by Street and Smith. Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow. 37 chapters, 314 pages, 104,500 words.Chapters: The Viper -- Unmasked -- At Bay -- A Boarding-school Girl -- The Charity Scholar -- Facing the Foe -- Playing the Spy -- A Great Triumph -- The Plotters -- In the Lion's Den -- Nora's Story -- Discovering the Traitor -- For Freedom -- Of Near Kin -- The Old Gardener's Story -- The Unwelcome Visitor -- At the Adirondacks -- The Abduction -- A Double Indignity -- Mrs. Upton Begins the Treatment -- The Bridal Party -- Villainy Defeated -- Madge's Stratagem -- Is he not Dead? -- The Grotto Dweller -- The Secret Panel -- Led by a Dream -- A Fine Little Plot -- Proofs of Villainy -- An Unexpected Avowal -- The Specter -- The Unbidden Guests -- Once More a Prisoner -- Fire at Sea -- Saved -- The Reunion -- Farewell.