he Ambassador. She waved her hand gaily to
us, but her companion drew her firmly away. We both looked after her
admiringly.

"Guy," Lord Chelsford said, "we have both of us done some good work in
our time, but never anything better than the way we managed to hoodwink
everybody--even herself, about her father. Amongst the middle classes
he remains a canonized saint, the man who pauperized himself for their
sakes. Ray was too full of Blenavon's little aberrations to suspect any
one else, and our friends from across the water who might--I mean the
woman--have been inclined for a little blackmail, were obliging enough
to make a final disappearance in the unlucky Henriette. The woman was
saved, though, by-the-bye."

"The woman is still alive," I told him, "but I will answer for her
silence. I allow her a small pension--all she would accept. She is
living in the south of France somewhere."

"And Blenavon," Lord Chelsford said, with a smile, "has married an
American girl who has made a different man of him. What character those
women have! She hasn't a penny, they tell me, until her father dies,
and they work on their ranch from sunrise. She will be an ornament to
our aristocracy when they do come back."

"They are coming next spring," I remarked, "if they can do it out of the
profits of the ranch--not unless. Blenavon has carried out his father's
wishes to the letter, and cut off the entail of everything that was
necessary."

"What a silly ass that novelist was!" Lord Chelsford declared
vigorously.

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