A STORY IN NINETEEN CHAPTERS.
By T. W. SPEIGHT,
Author of The Mysteries of Heron Dyke, By Devious Ways, &c.
[CHAPTER I.]
"Aunty, dear, do you know what day this is?"
"If the almanac may be believed, it is the 24th of April."
"Six months ago to-day, Gerald and I were married. I feel as if I had been married for years."
"How dreadful to feel that you are growing old so quickly! I hope all married people don't feel like that."
"You misunderstand me, Aunt Jane. I have been so happy since that evening last year when Gerald whispered something to me in the summer-house, that all my life before I knew him seems as unreal as a dream."
"Such short courtships are positively dreadful. Now, when I was engaged to Captain Singleton"----