with a cynical smile upon his lips, and she would grow pale and totter

and fall into the arms of the bloated Silenus, for whose title she had

bartered her purely superficial charms.

Yes, upon mature deliberation, that was precisely what Billy decided

to do.

Followed dark days at Selwoode. Frederick R. Woods told Margaret of

what had occurred; and he added the information that, as his wife's

nearest relative, he intended to make her his heir.

Then Margaret did what I would scarcely have expected of Margaret.

She turned upon him like a virago and informed Frederick R. Woods