It was supposed that the mother had discovered that it was her money, and not herself, that her husband cared for, and, perhaps, too, may have imagined him to be still thinking of his first love, who, indeed, was said to have in some way fomented the quarrel between them, though how, or to what end, was never known.

She, by-the-way, after an absence of some years from New York, suddenly reappeared there, and married a wealthy old Knickerbocker, who died not long afterward, and left her his property.

She became eminent in society, and was intimate with all the most distinguished people.

Her former lover returned from Europe, with his little son, and, I believe, settled somewhere in the neighborhood of New York.

They met, and, I understand, came to be on very friendly terms with one another, but the conditions of their lives would have prevented the possibility of marriage, even had they desired it.
"Well, it was before the old Knickerbocker's death that he I am telling you of first arrived in the city.