Cupid's Understudy

After spending several years in Paris, a young lady (Elizabeth) returns to the United States by steamship. Her father meets Elizabeth in New York, is introduced to a man who had noticed Elizabeth on the passage to America, they all travel to California by train, the two young people fall in love, and there begins the trouble. I do admit that Elizabeth's fiance was quite clever in the way he tries to blackmail his mother. It's a sweet short story with some twists and turns thrown in to keep up the suspense. Edward Salisbury Field was an American author, playwright, artist, poet, and journalist.