Raife’s mother, the Dowager Lady Remington, had recovered much of health with the return of the normal conditions of life.
The brave American girl, Hilda, who had borne her troubles with courage and resource, was happy.
When she knew the terrible conditions of Gilda Tempest’s life, she felt sorry for her dead rival, but, she would have been more than human if she had not a sense of relief that the shadow of “the other woman” no longer cast a gloom on her husband’s life.
The End.
| [Chapter 1] | | [Chapter 2] | | [Chapter 3] | | [Chapter 4] | | [Chapter 5] | | [Chapter 6] | | [Chapter 7] | | [Chapter 8] | | [Chapter 9] | | [Chapter 10] | | [Chapter 11] | | [Chapter 12] | | [Chapter 13] | | [Chapter 14] | | [Chapter 15] | | [Chapter 16] | | [Chapter 17] | | [Chapter 18] | | [Chapter 19] | | [Chapter 20] | | [Chapter 21] | | [Chapter 22] | | [Chapter 23] | | [Chapter 24] | | [Chapter 25] | | [Chapter 26] | | [Chapter 27] | | [Chapter 28] |