If you have heard anything of my unhappy history you will know that I made a rash marriage and had reason to regret it." "I have heard so much." "My life has been one incessant persecution from a husband whom I abhor.

The law is upon his side, and every day I am faced by the possibility that he may force me to live with him.

At the time that I wrote this letter to Sir Charles I had learned that there was a prospect of my regaining my freedom if certain expenses could be met.

It meant everything to me--peace of mind, happiness, self-respect--everything.

I knew Sir Charles's generosity, and I thought that if he heard the story from my own lips he would help me." "Then how is it that you did not go ?" "Because I received help in the interval from another source." "Why then, did you not write to Sir Charles and explain this ?" "So I should have done had I not seen his death in the paper next morning." The woman's story hung coherently together, and all my questions were unable to shake it.