[ CHAPTER XLII.—A NEW-MADE GRAVE ]
[ CHAPTER XLIII.—UNDER THE QUIET STARS ]
THEME
Once an American mother, with the wealth of a Croesus and a lovely daughter, longed for titled distinction.
In her net she caught an adventurer, clothed in a frayed-out remnant of a former nobility—and an eyeglass.
They bartered and came to terms,—dollars, title,—while an innocent girl was thrown in as an incident.
“And what is writ is writ,—