that the
little cottage contained two other tenants, and that those tenants were
their beloved friends whom they had mourned as victims of the hideous
guillotine?

Dolores, after the first transports of delight at the reunion were over,
endeavored to continue her role of martyr and to induce Philip to keep
his promise to her to marry Antoinette, but the latter had greatly
changed since that dreadful parting at the Conciergerie. She had become
capable of as great a sacrifice as Dolores, and firmly refused to stand
longer between Philip and the woman he had loved for so many years. She
still loved Philip, it is true, but her love had grown pure and
unselfish--it was now a sister's love, not that of a woman who wished to
be his wife.

To say that Philip was overjoyed by this unexpected turn of affairs is
only to state the simple truth.

Dolores at first demurred, urging the wish of the late Marquis, also
that she was devoted to God, but Antoinette's only reply was to join
their hands and bless them, and Dolores finally consented to the
marriage that at her heart's core she so ardently desired.

Philip and Dolores were quietly united in wedlock a few weeks later.
Coursegol, the Bridouls and Antoinette were the only persons present at
the ceremony besides the bride and groom and the officiating priest.
Shortly afterwards the Marquis de Chamondrin and his wife, accompanied
by Coursegol, Antoinette and the Bridouls, the latter having sold their
wine-shop, went to England and from there to Louisiana, where Mlle. de
Mirandol owned extensive estates. Antoinette decided to remain in
Louisiana, having persuaded Madame Bridoul to take charge of her house
and Bridoul to assume the management of her business.

Philip and Dolores spent ten years in America and then returned to
France. They had two children, a son and a daughter, the latter named
Antoinette, and their life, though always slightly tinged with
melancholy, was serene and peaceful. After his return to his native
land, Philip rebuilt the Chateau de Chamondrin and took up his permanent
abode there, determined to lead the life of a country gentleman and
student and to take no part in the political controversies of the time,
nor could he be induced to reconsider this decision though he was twice
offered a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. After the exciting and
terrible scenes of the Reign of Terror through which he had passed, he
longed for quiet and repose. Coursegol was