Leslie's Loyalty. Charles Garvice

By the Author of "As Common Mortals" 493—The Girl He Loved By Adelaide Stirling 494—Voyagers of Fortune By St. George Rathborne 495—Norine's Revenge By May Agnes Fleming 496—The Missing Heiress By C. H. Montague 497—A Chase for Love By Seward W. Hopkins 498—Andrew Leicester's Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 499—My Lady Cinderella By Mrs. C. N. Williamson 500—Love and Spite By Adelaide Stirling 501—Her Husband's Secret By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller 502—Fair Maid Marian By Mrs. Emma Garrison Jones 503—A Lady in Black By Florence Warden 504—Evelyn, the Actress By Wenona Gilman 505—Selina's Love-story By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 506—A Secret Foe By Gertrude Warden 507—A Mad Betrothal By Laura Jean Libbey 508—Lottie and Victorine By Lucy Randall Comfort 509—A Penniless Princess By Emma Garrison Jones 510—Doctor Jack's Paradise Mine By St. George Rathborne 513—A Sensational Case By Florence Warden 514—The Temptation of Mary Barr By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 515—Tiny Luttrell (Author of "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman") By E. W. Hornung 516—Florabel's Lover By Laura Jean Libbey 517—They Looked and Loved By Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller 518—The Secret of a Letter By Gertrude Warden 521—The Witch from India By St. George Rathborne 522—A Spurned Proposal By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 523—A Banker of Bankersville By Maurice Thompson 524—A Sacrifice of Pride By Mrs. Louisa Parr 525—Sweet Kitty Clover By Laura Jean Libbey 526—Love and Hate By Morley Roberts 527—For Love and Glory By St. George Rathborne 528—Adela's Ordeal By Florence Warden 529—Hearts Aflame By Louise Winter 530—The Wiles of a Siren By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 532—True to His Bride By Emma Garrison Jones 533—A Forgotten Love By Adelaide Stirling 534—Lotta, the Cloak Model By Laura Jean Libbey 535—The Trifler By Archibald Eyre 536—Companions in Arms By St. George Rathborne 538—The Fighting Chance By Gertrude Lynch 539—A Heart's Triumph By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 540—A Daughter of Darkness By Ida Reade Allen 541—Her Evil Genius By Adelaide Stirling 543—The Veiled Bride By Laura Jean Libbey 544—In Love's Name By Emma Garrison Jones 545—Well Worth Winning By St. George Rathborne 546—The Career of Mrs. Osborne By Helen Milecete 549—Tempted by Love By Effie Adelaide Rowlands 550—Saved from Herself By Adelaide Stirling 551—Pity—Not Love By Laura Jean Libbey 552—At the Court of the Maharaja By Louis Tracy

LESLIE'S LOYALTY

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      CHAPTER I.

LESLIE LISLE.

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      Nobody ever goes to Portmaris; that is to say, nobody who is anybody. It lies—but no matter, ours shall not be the hand to ruin its simplicity by advertising its beauties and advantages, and directing the madding crowd to its sylvan retreat. At present the golden sands which line the bay are innocent of the negro troupe, the peripatetic conjurer, and the monster in human form who pesters you to purchase hideous objects manufactured from shells and cardboard.

      A time may come when Portmaris will develop into an Eastbourne or a Brighton, a Scarborough or a Hastings; but, Heaven be praised, that time is not yet, and Portmaris, like an unconscious village beauty, goes on its way as yet ignorant of its loveliness.

      At present there are about a dozen houses, most of them fishermen's cottages; a church, hidden in a hollow a mile away from the restless sea; and an inn which is satisfied with being an inn, and has not yet learned to call itself a hotel.

      Two or three of the fisherfolk let lodgings, to which come those fortunate individuals