“Where can I find my wife?” asked Cook, with much eagerness.
Carl hesitated. He did not like his stepmother; he felt that she had treated him meanly, but he was not prepared to reveal her present residence till he knew what course Cook intended to pursue.
“She is married again,” he said, watching Cook to see what effect this announcement might have upon him.
“I have no objection, I am sure,” responded Cook, indifferently. “Did she marry well?”
“She married a man in good circumstances.”
“She would take good care of that.”
“Then you don’t intend to reclaim her?”
“How can I? She obtained a divorce, though by false representations. I am glad to be rid of her, but I want her to restore the two thousand dollars of which she robbed me. I left my property in her hands, but when she ceased to be my wife she had no right to take possession of it. I ought not to be surprised, however. It wasn’t the first theft she had committed.”
“Can this be true?” asked Carl, excited.
“Yes, I married her without knowing much of her antecedents. Two years after marriage I ascertained that she had served a year’s term of imprisonment for a theft of jewelry from a lady with whom she was living as housekeeper.”