JOAQUIN MILLER.

CHICAGO, NOV., 1875.




MAE MADDEN.



CHAPTER I.

SCENE. Deck of an ocean steamer.

Characters:
Mrs. Jerrold, matron and chaperon in general.
Edith Jerrold, her daughter.
Albert Madden, a young man on study intent.
Eric, his brother, on pleasure bent.
Norman Mann, cousin of the Jerrolds, old classmate of the
Maddens.
Mae Madden, sister of the brothers and leading lady.

"It's something like dying, I do declare," said Mae, and as she spoke
a suspicious-looking drop slid softly across her cheek, down over the
deck-railing, to join its original briny fellows in the deep below.

"What is like dying?" asked Eric.