Laura Cutler, heiress to the Cutler farm, quickly won the affection of both her farmhands. When she finally chose a man to marry, she was a widow less than twenty-four hours later. The town jumped to support her, but were her eyes full of crocodile tears?

Sources:

Montpelier Chronicles: Historic Stories of the Capital City by Paul Heller

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