Education may smooth the externals, but underneath the fire burns just as furiously as of old.

To this affront the average woman's mind leaps at once to revenge; and that she does not always take it depends upon two things; opportunity, and love, which is more powerful than revenge.

Sometimes, on hot summer nights, clouds form angrily in the distance; vivid flashes dartle hither and about, which serve to intensify the evening darkness.

Thus, a similar phenomenon was taking place in Hildegarde von Mitter's mind.

The red fires of revenge danced before her eyes, blurring the spots, on the cards, the blackness of despair crowding upon each flash.