num_pages: 67
description: Widowed at twenty years old Mary Harbrough learns that her husband has gambling debts. While looking for a job to pay them she finds the Matrimonial Times and picks up a copy to see what it is. She decides to write to a man from the newspaper which is filled with men advertising for wives. To her delight Mary hears back from Alexander Smith who lives in Tucson Arizona Territory and they correspond several times before Alex asks her to come to Tucson so they can get to know one another better. When she delivers a premature baby and saves its life the grateful grandfather pays off all the debts as well as her transportation to Arizona Territory. Upon meeting Alex who isnt as cordial as in his letters Mary becomes concerned that he wants a virtuous woman and hesitates to tell Alex that shes a widow. Then she learns that Alex also harbors a secret. What secret could that be? Would she ever break through to the friendly side that hes shown her on occasion?
language: None
title: The Widowed Bride’s Escape
publisher: None