Too True

Too A Story Of To-Day by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor traces the Camerons’ summer of wealth and romance, a jewel theft, and a web of social pretension in New York society. Mr. Cameron, a prudent lawyer, presides over two daughters, Elizabeth and Milla, whose lives become entwined with Louis Dassel, a cultured foreigner who passes as a baron. The tale interlaces the rivalries of creditors and neighbors with the Camerons’ humble urban household and the tenement-dwellers nearby, weaving in a mysterious sleeve-button that connects a fashionable jewel theft to a distant German nobleman’s history. Dassel’s past as Count Konigsberg is gradually revealed through parables about crime, fortune, and fate, culminating in a dramatic elopement, deception, and tragedy. Milla, deformed yet luminous, marries Dassel and dies after exposing his true guilt; Elizabeth and Lissa confront their own loyalties and duties. The narrative closes with justice for the wronged and a tempered, hopeful reconciliation within a society enthralled by money and status.