tter off than she had expected to be. She never
seemed to regret her actions, not even the hysterical outburst which had
caused her to confess her guilt and to hasten the General's end. She
declared herself relieved that she had now nothing to conceal. As for
the execration that she met with from all who knew her story, she cared
very little indeed. She refused to see her old acquaintances, and went
abroad as soon as possible. Her lawyer alone knew her address--for she
did not correspond with her English friends; but she was occasionally
heard of at a foreign watering-place, where she posed as an interesting
widow completely misunderstood by a sadly prejudiced world. In time she
married again, and it was said that her husband, a Russian nobleman,
ill-treated-her; but Flossy was quite capable of holding her own against
any number of Russia noblemen, and it was more likely that he suffered
at her hands than she at his. In the wild Northern lands however she
finally made her home; and she announced to her lawyer her determination
never to set foot in England again. A traveller who afterwards came
across her in Russian reported to her relatives that she was looking
haggard and worn, that she was said to take chloral regularly, and that
she suffered from some obscure disease of the nerves for which no doctor
could find a cure. And thus she passed out of the lives of her English
friends--unloved, unmourned, unhappy, and, in spite of wealth and title,
unsuccessful in all that she tried to attain.

Enid, the owner of Beechfield Hall, took a dislike to the place, and
would not live in it for many a long day. She remained with Miss Vane
until a year had passed after the General's death, and then she married
Mr. Evandale and took up her abode at the Rectory. She made an ideal
parson's wife. Her health had grown stronger in the quiet atmosphere of
Miss Vane's home; and, curiously enough, she never had another of her
strange "seizures" after her departure from Beechfield Hall. She herself
always believed that she had conquered them by an effort of will; but
Mr. Evandale was disposed to think that she had been occasionally put
under the influence of some drug by Mrs. Vane, and that Mrs. Vane had
either wished to remove her altogether from her path or undermine her
health and intellect completely. At a later date she had grown tired of
this method, and tried to take a quicker way; but in this attempt she
had been foiled. Parker remaine