"In this case, ladies and gentlemen, I beg to reverse the familiar words, for amid all your joy I have lost my 'continual reader.' She had her faults--no, I'm not going to deny that being young she had her faults--but she was ever good-natured, and she did her gossip chirrupy." Of course the girls' future was now assured, for Arthur was a very rich man.

Miss Egerton, at his earnest request, came to live with them, and they are now known to possess one of the happiest and brightest homes in London--in short, they live in a "Palace Beautiful.".