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Nellie Palmer's attractiveness almost leads to her death in a dismal underground dungeon. As principal dancer and chorus singer at the Imperial Theater she is a popular young woman with ... See full summary

Nellie Palmer's attractiveness almost leads to her death in a dismal underground dungeon. As principal dancer and chorus singer at the Imperial Theater she is a popular young woman with many admirers. A rich American, William J. Smithson, is so enamored of her that when repulsed he goes to her parents and offers to marry Nellie. Nellie is already engaged, and although her fiancé is only a young bank clerk, her love is proof against the advantages offered by an alliance with the American millionaire. Smithson has a private secretary, one John Davis, a scheming, smooth, oily, suave young man. Davis learns that his employer means to divide his wealth between Nellie and Davis, so he arranges that Mr. Smithson shall not cumber the earth much longer, by substituting a deleterious compound for the medicine which the doctor has prescribed. Smithson makes his will, leaving the whole of his fortune to be equally shared between Nellie and his secretary, and in the event of one predeceasing the ...