ber it all now. I wonder that memory did not come back to me when
I heard the name Jessie Bain. She did not know that it was I who was
Hubert Varrick's wife, or she would have let me die."

The effect of Gerelda's words was startling upon Rosamond.

"What are you going to do about it?" she asked, eagerly.

"Do?" echoed Gerelda. "I am going to claim my husband. He is mine, and
all the powers on earth can never take him from me!"

"I suppose," said Rosamond, "now, from the way this amazing affair has
culminated, you will not want me to go with you to Hubert-- Mr.
Varrick, I mean."

Gerelda turned haughtily on her.

"No," she said. "Why should you wish to go with me to my husband? What
interest have you in him?"

Rosamond shrunk back abashed, though she stammered:

"I-- I should like to see how he takes it."

"I would like to accompany you for the same reason," interposed Captain
Frazier. "He will be angry enough at you coming back to frustrate his
marriage with the girl whom he idolizes so madly."

Gerelda's face grew stormy as she listened. There was an expression in
her eyes not good to see, and which Captain Frazier knew boded no good
to the object of her wrath.

At this juncture the express rolled into the Boston depot. Bidding
Rosamond Lee and Captain Frazier a hasty good-bye, and insisting that
under no circumstances should they accompany her, Gerelda hailed a cab,
and gave the order: "To the Varrick mansion."

Captain Frazier stepped suddenly forward and hailed a passing cab,
saying to himself that he must be present, at all hazards, at that
meeting which was to take place between Gerelda and Hubert Varrick.

"Keep yonder carriage in sight," he said, pointing out the vehicle just
ahead of them, and producing, as he spoke, a bank-note, which he thrust
into the cab-man's hand.

The man did his duty well.

Pausing suddenly, and bending low, he whispered to the occupant of his
vehicle that the carriage ahead had stopped short.

"All right," said Captain Frazier, sharply. "Spring out--here is your
fee, my good man."

The captain drew back into the shadow of the tall pines as his carriage
drove away, lest the occupant of the vehicle ahead should discover his
presence there. He saw Gerelda alight and pause involuntarily before the
arched entrance gate that led around to the rear of the Varrick mansion.

Captain Frazier watched her keenly as she stood there for a moment,
quite irresolute. His heart wa