out.

They never met again.

EPILOGUE.

It was eight years later at East Angels. Penelope and Middleton had come
down for an afternoon visit; Betty was already there, Betty was
generally there.

Dr. Kirby had just gone; he had brought to them the surprising tidings
that Garda had turned her back upon her many admirers, and was about to
bestow her hand upon Adolfo Torres.

The Doctor having gone, "I'll believe it when I see it!" Kate declared.

"But, Kate dear, you can't see all the way to Paris," said Betty.

That same evening, Margaret was sitting beside the lamp in the
drawing-room, embroidering something which took her close attention.

Lanse had had his sofa drawn up to the open door of the little high
balcony; he was smoking and looking out upon the moonlight.

He, too, spoke of the rumor about Garda. "I wonder why Evert didn't try
for her?" he said.

His wife made no reply.

"Never married all this time--yet he was the very fellow for it! Steady,
you know; good; a little stupid. It's outrageous the way he treats
us--never coming here!"

Lanse was still crippled; but his face remained handsome. Save for his
crippled condition, he appeared well and strong.

After a while he turned from the moonlight and sat idly watching his
wife's hand move over her work. "Do you know that you've grown old,
Madge, before your time?"

"Yes, I know it."

"Well--you're a good woman," said Lanse.

THE END.

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