“Wayne’s Faithful Sweetheart” — A Lost Novel of Nellie Bly — Chapter One

A MOTHER’S SECRET — AND A YOUNG GIRL’S GRIEF.

She was very young, exquisitely beautiful, and delicately refined — the last girl in the world one would expect to find starving in a little bare room on the top floor of a noisy tenement. Nevertheless, she had lived there for years, silent and unobtrusive, knowing nothing of her neighbors, and…