Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 591

1888 · 16 pages

Delmonte, the Young Sea-Rover by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham This serial adventure opens in the 1790s on Mississippi Sound's coast. Miriam Volney, belle of the region and daughter of a wealthy planter, is caught between suitors. Her father favors the wealthy, dissolute Roland De Vigne; however, Miriam has been secretly married to the poorer but virtuous Ambrose Delmonte since her time at a New Orleans convent. When De Vigne returns from the city and learns of her engagement to Delmonte, he confronts Miriam in her garden arbor, threatening to reveal a damaging secret about her family unless she agrees to marry him. Miriam confesses her true marriage to a sympathetic Ambrose, who has just discovered her fainted in the arbor. De Vigne vows vengeance upon Miriam and her family. The narrative emphasizes family honor, secret marriages, threatened scandal, and romantic rivalry amid the plantation gentry.

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