Love Story Magazine, June 23, 1923

This issue of Love Street & Smith's *Love Story Magazine* (June 23, 1923, Vol. XII, No. 4) contains four serialized romance stories presented in different parts: "Seed of Cain" by Maude Reynolds (Part One), "Jewel of Destiny" by Georgette MacMillan (Part Four—concluding), "An Old Love's Shackles" by Amenia Rosehill (Part Three), and "Love and a Lie" by Ruby M. Ayres (Part Two). The magazine also features a novelette and short stories including "The Love Bird" by Ida M. Kier, "The Heart of a Lily" by Clara Sands Kingsley, and "A Bargain in Hearts" by Victor Thorne, plus poetry by various authors. "Seed of Cain" opens with the death of the reclusive "mad" squire Craddock and his mysterious past—his estrangement from his daughter Lucia and his adoption of a foundling girl named Brenda decades earlier. The initial chapter depicts a village doctor's arrival at the decaying estate in response to the aging Craddock's failing health.