hearth at Cedar Cottage, and the
dilapidated furniture in the various rooms was arranged in the kitchen.

About six months after, this old woman was found dead upon an iron
bedstead up-stairs, and the neighbors held a consultation about burying
her at the expense of the town; but, on searching the rooms, plenty of
English gold was found to have kept her comfortable for years. Then some
one remembered that a convict, discharged from the prison not many years
ago, was said to be the mother of Daniel Yates, a good man and excellent
citizen, and they decided to bury the poor old convict by his side.

There is a very prosperous firm in New York, which has stood the shock
of gold corners, and railway crashes, with the firm resistance of heavy
capital and business integrity. It is the firm of Closs & Brown.

The younger member is an active, shrewd, generous man, full of
resources, and capable of wonderful combinations.

The other superintends the in-door business, and makes himself very
useful, in a quiet sort of way, in keeping things straight--no
unimportant position in a business house, let me assure you.

As for Caroline--Mrs. Hepworth Closs--you may see her, any fine day,
dashing faster than the law allows, along the avenues of Central Park,
holding a pair of white ponies well in hand, while she chats and laughs
with her husband, glorying in him, and exulting in the freedom which she
gained in losing a grand title and estate.

THE END.

MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS' WORKS.

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THE OLD COUNTESS; OR, THE TWO PROPOSALS.
LORD HOPE'S CHOICE.
THE REIGNING BELLE.
A NOBLE WOMAN.
MARRIED IN HASTE.
WIVES AND WIDOWS; OR, THE BROKEN LIFE.
THE REJECTED WIFE.
THE GOLD BRICK.
THE CURSE OF GOLD.
THE HEIRESS.
FASHION AND FAMINE.
PALACES AND PRISONS.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
SILENT STRUGGLES.
MARY DERWENT.
THE WIFE'S SECRET.
THE SOLDIER'S ORPHANS.
RUBY GRAY'S STRATEGY.
MABEL'S MISTAKE.
DOUBLY FALSE.

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