The paper's over a week old.

I brought it along to--to break the thing to you gently." Mrs.De Peyster seized the newspaper.

In the center of its first page was a reproduction of M.Dubois's painting of herself, and across the paper's top ran the giant headline:-- MRS.

DE PEYSTER FOUND DEAD IN THE SEINE _Face Disfigured by Water, but Friends in Paris Identify Social Leader by Clothes upon the Body_ Mrs.De Peyster sank without a word into a chair, and her face duplicated the ashen hue of Matilda's.
Matilda likewise collapsed into a chair.

"Oh, isn't it awful, ma'am," she moaned.
"So--so it's I--that's--that's dead!" mumbled Mrs.De Peyster.
"Yes, ma'am.