Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 58: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIII. WINNING HER WAY. That terrible fire which razed to the ground 80 much of the “Garden City of the West” made many arich man poor and many tenderly nurtured families beggars and homeless, ~ It did not spare Eivelie Graham. The fine warehouses in which most of her own wealth was invested, together with her palatial home, the granaries—those vast store-houses of the great West—in which her husband had been largely interested, the bankin which he had been a proml- nent sto¢kholder and director, beside a good deal of other real estate, were all consumed by the devour- ing flames during that terrible holocaust. and, three months later, that beautiful and delicately reared woman awoke to the stern fact that she had suddenly been stripped of her all, that she was poor, with @ poverty such as she had never dreamed of, She had been taken at her word—her impulsively expressed wish on ship-board had been granted. She had saved her jewels, which were valuable, and a little money that night after Adzisn, Marles;