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 Disappeared on Her Wedding Day
Strange, mysterious events occur every day in reality, and they astonish us. It is therefore not impossible for a young woman to disappear on her wedding day.
But the event is truly surprising when it occurs in circumstances as special as these: Constance Phips is the only daughter of an American billionaire. While passing through Paris, her touching blonde beauty seduces a French gentleman who asks for her hand and grants it. The wedding takes place at the Madeleine with a magnificence and splendor that one can only imagine. A crowd of curious onlookers, journalists, and photographers besiege the church as the young couple leave. They then go to a vast hotel where the meal offered to the guests is to take place. However, just as they are about to sit down to eat, they realize that Constance Phips has disappeared!
What happened to her? Has she been kidnapped? Will she be found? This is the distressing problem that arises.
To resolve it, one must read "The Five Detectives," the captivating novel by Gabriel Bernard, which Le Petit Journal illustré begins publishing today, to the great delight of its readers who are fans of beautiful tales of adventure and love. Everyone, we have no doubt, will want to know the moving story of this beautiful heroine whose portrait we feature on the front page.
This portrait, painted by the delicate brush of the excellent artist Raymond Moritz, has everything to seduce even the most difficult readers. One can admire both the modest charm of the young girl, slightly blushing beneath her white bridal veil, and the very particular grace of the American woman in whom the blood of several races blends, the quintessence, in short, of several different beauties.
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