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Mrs Staleyborn's first husband was a dreamy Fellow of a Learned

University

Her second husband had begun life at the bottom of the ladder as a

three-card trickster, and by strict attention to business and the

exercise of his natural genius, had attained to the proprietorship of a

bucket-shop

When Mrs Staleyborn was Miss Clara Smith, she had been housekeeper to

Professor Whitland, a biologist who discovered her indispensability,

and was only vaguely aware of the social gulf which yawned between the

youngest son of the late Lord Bortledyne and the only daughter of

Albert Edward Smith, reeable, featherless plantigrade biped of the genus

Hohly doel,

a nice woman who apparently never knew that her husband had a Christian

name, for she called him "Mr Whitland" to the day of his death

The strain and embarrassment of the new relationship with her hter, and doubled when that

daughter cauerite Whitland had the

inherent culture of her father and the grace and delicate beauty which

had ever distinguished the women of the house of Bortledyne

When the Professor died, Mrs Whitland mourned him in all sincerity

She was also relieved One-half of the burden which lay upon her had