MONA

Or, The Secret of a Royal Mirror

by

MRS. GEORGIE SHELDON

Author of _Virgie's Inheritance_, _A True Aristocrat_, _Trixy_, _Lost A
Pearle_, _Helen's Victory_, etc.

1891







CHAPTER I.

A FASCINATING YOUNG WIDOW OPENS THE STORY.


"Appleton, don't look quite yet, but there's a woman just behind you whom
I want you to see. I never before saw such a face and figure! They are
simply perfection!"

The above remarks were made by a young man, perhaps thirty years of age,
to his companion, who, evidently, was somewhat his senior.