What with his own
money and the money she inherited from her mother--in which
Braddock had a life interest--the young couple had nearly a
thousand a year.
Six months later Sir Frank came into the small San Remo where Mr.
and Mrs. Hope lived, with his wife on his arm. Lady Random
looked singularly charming and was assuredly more conversational.
This was the first time the two sets of lovers had met since the
tragedy, and now each girl had married the man she loved.
Therefore there was great joy.
"My yacht is over at Monte Carlo," said Random, "and I am, going
with Inez to South America. She wants to see her father."
"Yes, I do," said Lady Random; "and we want you to come also,
Lucy--you and your dear husband."
Archie and his wife looked at one another, but declined
unanimously.
"We would rather stay here in San Remo," said Mrs. Hope, becoming
slightly pale. "Don't think me unkind, Inez, but I could not
bear to go to Peru. It is associated too much in my own mind
with that terrible green mummy."
"Oh, Don Pedro has taken that back to the Andes," explained Sir
Frank, "and it is now reposing in the sepulchre in which it was
placed, hundreds of years ago, by the Indians, faithful to Inca
Caxas.
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