"The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then
he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New
Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a miners'
camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was my Frank's
name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was very sick for
months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took me to half the
doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a year and more, so
that I never doubted that Frank was really dead. Then Lord St.
Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, and a marriage was
arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt all the time that no
man on this earth would ever take the place in my heart that had
been given to my poor Frank.
"Still, if I had married Lord St. S
