Stanner E.V. Taylor
2021A Leaf in the Storm
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
The story opens in a New York tenement where Miss Leonard is living in hopes of finding the means to support herself and little baby. A month before her husband had been killed in a mine accident and Miss Leonard sought the city, leaving her child m the care of a neighbor. She is aroused by a knock on the door. A youth of the underworld, struck with her beauty, has followed her home. He tells her where she can secure work. When he offers her money to pay for a new dress, she understands, and drives him from the room. Another knock. It is her landlord. She must pay her rent in the morning. Her eye falls on the card left by the "cadet." and makes a desperate decision that will change her life.
A Leaf in the Storm
So Speaks the Heart
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
How the accident happened no one could explain, but the lamp had exploded, and the girl was blind! She thought of and sent for Bob. He came. Sadly she told him what had happened, and horror-stricken, he recoiled from her. And that moment he decided to go away. When he told her he was going west, that he would soon return to her, she clung to him. He comforted her with deceit, and went out of the house, putting her out of his life.
So Speaks the Heart
The Drift
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
John Evans and Thomas Barnes were both employed by the banking house of H.M. Cruze and Co. They also occupied an apartment together. Barnes received a tip to play C. and S. stock for a rise. But instead of rising it fell, and he was notified by his broker to send five hundred dollars the next morning to cover the margin or be wiped out. He had no money of his own left, and waiting until everyone had left the office, Barnes opened the safe and took out five hundred dollars.
The Drift
Tears O’Peggy
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
A pretty woman's tears are the greatest persuasive argument on the planet earth. A woman's tears will melt the coldest heart, and will make the heart manifest itself when there isn't any at all. They were in love, and pa frowned on the romance. When a pa frowns on a romance between a pretty, determined girl and the man "she was born to marry" there's always an interesting story. The girl knew the power of tears, because she was a girl! And she determined to cry her father into submission.
Tears O’Peggy
The Light Unseen
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
A girl marries a wealthy pawnbroker in order to get money for her poor lover, who is an artist. When the pawnbroker dies, his son forces the girl to marry him, but he is killed and she marries the artist. Various problems arise after their marriage, but eventually they are happy together.
The Light Unseen
What Avails the Crown
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
She was the princess, and a human girl. Sincere, simple, with an earnest love for all things everywhere, she hated royal pomp with a hatred that was passion. In her light, bright eyes was the uncopyrighted story of human struggle, of contending human emotions. This, then, was the girl to be sacrificed for a political alliance. The prince selected was a jellyfish personage with enough blue blood to give a girl with as much red blood as the princess the blues.
What Avails the Crown
The Dragon’s Claw
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard, Walter Hampden
A little girl and her father are among the settlers in a small western town. The father is very friendly with the neighboring Indian tribe and is presented with a quaint piece of metal representing a dragon's claw, the tribe's good luck omen. Some time later, while traveling with his daughter, he is held up by a band of bandits and shot dead. A bandit takes from him this dragon's claw. Years pass. The little girl has grown into a beautiful young lady. She marries. Their love is very real and their life most happy. He decides to go out west to see a mine that yields the richest gold and his wife expresses a desire to go along with him. The mine is christened "The Dragon's Claw," because of an Indian charm the man owns. While out on a western desert, he shows the dragon's claw to his wife. She then recognizes it as the kind her father possessed when he was killed. She has understood it to be the only one of its kind. She now believes it is her husband who killed her father.
The Dragon’s Claw
The Unknown Bride
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard, Walter Pennington
When the actress learned that if she married the man his father would disinherit him, she was rather determined for his sake not to marry him. When his father, at the point of death, suddenly had a will drawn up leaving everything to his wife, and then commissioned his attorney to go out and find a woman who would marry him, it was she whom he met and to whom he broached the daring offer. And she accepted. When she learned that she had married the father of the man she loved, and that she had everything and he nothing; they arranged a plan of their own whereby the fortune would be more equally distributed.
The Unknown Bride
The End of the Circle
Stanner E.V. Taylor
Marion Leonard
Discouraged and disheartened with her uncompromising poverty and the narrow prospects for improving the bleak conditions, she goes away with another. It was hard to leave the little tot and the husband vainly straggling against the relentless tide of invincible circumstance. In the lonesome night the child prays for the mother-woman, and across the dreary waste of desert life she hears the call, and heeds. The telepathic tie that binds the child's mind to her own transmits the wistful message, and the mother-heart conquers. The nebulous shadow of night and blight departs; the withered hope buds and blooms anew, and she takes the narrow path back to those to whom her life is consecrated.
The End of the Circle
