The simple fool willed everything to her, and she knew it; and his doing so is the more astounding when you remember he was quite well aware that she had a former lover whom she would gladly have married if he had been as rich as Brenton.

The supreme idiocy of some men as far as their wives are concerned is something awful." [Illustration: Publicity.] "Yes," answered Benham, "it is.

But I tell you, Brown, she is no ordinary woman.

The very conception of that murder had a stroke of originality about it that I very much admire.

I do not remember anything like it in the annals of crime.