But, after all, that wretched creature had been properly disgraced in Philadelphia.

It was not likely she could ever raise her head socially anywhere any more.

She agreed to file a plea which Steger would draw up for her, and by that oily gentleman's machinations it was finally wormed through the local court in the most secret manner imaginable.

The merest item in three of the Philadelphia papers some six weeks later reported that a divorce had been granted.

When Mrs.Cowperwood read it she wondered greatly that so little attention had been attracted by it.