Within a month after the decree in his favor, he returned across the Atlantic.
The publication of this decree awakened a brief interest in Mrs.
Dexter--or rather in plain Jessie Loring, as she was now in legal aspect.

But the curious public were not able to acquire any satisfactory information in regard to her.

The world in which she lived was a _terra incognita_ to them.
The next exciting news which came in this connection, was the announcement of Dexter's marriage with an English heiress.

He did not return with her to the United States; but remained in England, where he established a foreign branch of the mercantile house in which he was a partner, and took up his permanent residence beyond the sea..