rdial good wishes. Neither of
them resented the arch intention with which she said to Godolphin, "I
suppose you won't mind such a beautiful Salome as Miss Pettrell has
given us, now that it's to be all in the family."

Miss Pettrell answered for him with as complete an intelligence: "Oh, I
shall know how to subdue her to his Haxard, if she ever threatens the
peace of the domestic hearth."

That Salome has never done so in any serious measure Maxwell argues from
the fact that, though the Godolphins have now been playing his piece
together for a whole year since their marriage, they have not yet been
divorced.

THE END.

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