Transcriber's Notes:
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2. Lower left corner of page 144 (start of Chapter XVIII.) is torn
off, partially affecting three lines of text. Lacunae indicated
by [* * *].
WHOM GOD HATH JOINED.
A Question of Marriage.
BY
FERGUS HUME,
AUTHOR OF
"THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB," "THE MAN WITH A SECRET," "MONSIEUR JUDAS," etc., etc.
The saying that no one can serve two masters has its exception in the case of a wife and mother, who is bound by her marriage vows and maternal instincts to love in equal measure her husband and children; but alas for the happiness of the family should she love one to the exclusion of the other, for from such exclusion arise many domestic heart burnings.