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Whether Mrs Wilcox was right or wrong in her conjecture, the Tyson baby

had shown infinite delicacy in retiring from a world where he had caused

so h in his short life, and

I believe to the last Tyson owed the little beggar a grudge He had

spoiled the complexion of the loveliest woht he had Other people perhaps knew better

If she had been thin and pale before the baby's death, she was thinner

and paler now She had the look of a woman who carries a secret about

with her She trembled and blushed when you spoke to her And when she

had ceased to blush she took to dabbing on paint and powder It was just

like her folly to let everybody see she was pining And the ht well hide her face!

Scandal may circulate for years before it comes to the ears of the

personshow

to take her ahich was certainly very

wise of him Poor man, she had made Leicestershire rather too hot to hold

hi up to London now, and people who had entleman had become a man about town Still, you

there was some

truth in the report, hat could you expect with a wife like that?

By March it was settled that they were to leave Thorneytoft and make

London their headquarters Tyson had taken a flat in Ridgood central position and handy for the theatres

At any rate, he could not afford a better one so long as that infernal