"Now stop that," she said. "Mrs. O'Flaherty is a very good woman indeed, and you have not got rid of her yet, for we are going to accompany her as far as Cannes, unless you prefer to stop here with Mr. Mervin." "No, thank you," I said. "I shall go to Cannes." We left Nice by an evening train. Mervin was at Monaco, where he usually passed his day; and as he spent most of his time at Monaco, and had several friends in Nice, I did not feel as much compunction as I might otherwise have felt in leaving a letter for him, which he would get on his return at about ten o'clock, saying that I had been taken away from Nice by urgent business, the nature of which he would learn in due course if he watched the matrimonial advertisements in the _Times_. We got out of the train at Cannes, leaving Mrs. O'Flaherty to go on to Marseilles _en route_ for London. As we drove up to the hotel I took out my purse to pay the fare. "Why, that is a lady's purse," said Mrs. Brooke, who was sitting by my side. "Who had the audacity to give it to you? "A Miss Grey, who was an old sweetheart of mine," I replied. "Then I am jealous," said Mrs. Brooke. And she always says that she is jealous of Miss Grey. However, Miss Grey is the only person who has ever given her cause for jealousy. Three days afterward the numerous readers of the matrimonial announcements in the London daily papers were informed of a marriage which had taken place by special license at 41 York Place five years previously, between James Brooke, only son of the late Reverend Robert Brooke, and Catherine O'Flaherty, only daughter of the late Michael O'Flaherty, Esq. [Illustration] Transcriber's Notes: This story was originally published in _Belgravia: An Illustrated London Magazine_ in 1886; it was later reprinted as filler material in the _Favorite Library_ edition of _Little Golden's Daughter_ by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. This text is derived from the later reprint. Added table of contents. Italics are represented with _underscores_. Normalized 2000 to 2,000 throughout the text for consistency. Page 183, changed "mantelpiece" to "mantel-piece" for consistency. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of 'Farewell', by W. H. Stacpoole