The Cavalier: His Neighbor's Son

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This issue contains two serialized stories. "His Neighbor's Son" by Eleanor M. Ingram depicts a wealthy self-made millionaire, John Sutherland, who discovers a boy named Gayle Elton being whipped by his father at a country estate. Sutherland offers Gayle shelter and paternal affection, desiring him as the son he never had. Gayle initially declines, bound to his mother and the ancestral Elton property. Years later, Gayle reunites with Virginia, a fair-haired girl he met at a spring, falls in love with her, and marries her hastily after a confrontation with his father. He discovers Virginia is the ward of John Sutherland, who welcomes them aboard his riverboat. "Mr. Marx's Secret" by E. Phillips Oppenheim begins a new serial: a boy named Philip Morton witnesses his father's murdered body as a child; murder suspect Sohn Francis disappears; Mr. Ravenor offers to educate the orphaned Philip. The narrative involves monastery intrigue and mysterious attacks.