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24 A HEART’S BITTERNESS. Violet was shut up with her husband in a reserved carriage and whirling along the railway to Dover. =~ CHAPTER VI._ ‘YOU MARRIED ME FOR MY MONEY.” Certainly wedded life was not opening for this couple as for others. Lord Leigh, having paid every possible atten- tion to his bride, and finding all unnoticed, withdrew into . his own corner of the railroad coach and opened a book. - His courtship and marriage had proceeded with a fortunate smoothness far beyond his hopes. But what was this hostility, this mystery that assailed the first hours of his new life? Next to the charming boudoir, where Mrs. Ainslie had taken Violet to wait for her bridegroom, was a room with a balcony curtained with honeysuckle and passion-flowers closely interwoven. ‘This room had been made over for the day to the gentlemen of the guests, and some of them had taken possession of the balcony. Seated there, in a closely woven bower of green and _ blos- som, they could not see at all that a window was open just beside the balcony. But so there was, and in that window stood the waiting bride. The only excuse for the careless talk of the men in the balcony was that they were very young, and as thoughtless as they were innocent of evil intention. Just as Lady Leigh placed herself at the window to wait her bridegroom, these words fell on her ear: ‘So rank, beauty, and money have run their race, and money has won the cup.” . : In her happiness it never occurred to Violet that the words referred to her. She stood unprepared for what was to come. oe Captain Gore had spoken. Sir Hugh Hunter took up the theme: | _ €¢ First there was Lady Clare Montressor; then the vicar’s beautiful daughter, Miss Ambrose; and then—the Ainslie millions.” “Why, man, you don’t mean our bride is not most lovely?” (€(0) comicbooks