VI.[A CRISIS]

VII.[A FRIEND IN DISGUISE]

VIII.[COTTON CHEZ SOI]

IX.[“GOODBYE AND A KISS”]

X.[LITTLE MARY’S ADVENT]

XI.[MARION’S DREAM]

XII.[GEOFFREY’S WIDOW]

[CHAPTER] I.

ANTECEDENTS.

“———The children of one mother,
You could not say in one short day,
What love they bore each other.”