"I think they will find everything perfectly straight." "Tell me a little of your history, if you do not mind," inquired the other; "it will help me in trying to initiate you into our new order of things here." "Well," replied Brenton, and he wondered at himself for falling so easily into the other's assumption that he was a dead man, "I was what they call on the earth in reasonably good circumstances.

My estate should be worth $100,000.

I had $75,000 insurance on my life, and if all that is paid, it should net my widow not far from a couple of hundred thousand." "How long have you been married ?" said the other.
[Illustration: A Venetian cafe.] "Only about six months.

I was married last July, and we went for a trip abroad.

We were married quietly, and left almost immediately afterwards, so we thought, on our return, it would not be a bad plan to give a Christmas Eve dinner, and invite some of our friends.