A mighty pain seized the Chancellor's heart, and the loud groans he made called a stranger into the room.
"Is that dreadful woman dead?" sighed the Chancellor.
"Yes; she will never plague Delaware again, marster."
"God be thanked!" the old man groaned. "Justice and murder are kin no more."
They said he died that instant of heart disease.
Chapter XLV.
THE JUDGE REMARRIED.
Vesta found her circle reunited, though with many absentees, at Princess Anne.
Aunt Hominy took her place in the kitchen, and cooked with all her former art, but her voice and understanding were gone, and she never would go past the Entailed Hat, and still regarded it, as nearly as could be made out, as the cause of all her errors and dangers, though she seemed to admit its unevadable dominion.