She went East suddenly about fifteen years ago, and soon after a notice of her death appeared in the San Francisco papers.

But there was a tale of woe (for old Lawton) that I doubt if most of her own crowd had even a suspicion of." "Good heavens!" Ruyler recalled the apparent intimacy of his mother-in-law and the senior member of the respectable firm of Lawton and Cross.

If "Madame Delano" were the former Mrs.Lawton, how many things would be explained.
"This woman's name was Marie all right, and she was French, although she seems to have been adopted by some people named Dubois and brought up in California.

She was quite the proper thing in high society, but the trouble was that she liked another sort better.

She was a regular fly-by-night.