Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Pritchard are settled in the Canadian homestead now, where they live in perfect happiness and ever-increasing worldly prosperity. The law has long since freed Lord Carthew from his unfortunate marriage, concerning which the world has forgotten to talk; but the money which he settled upon Lura only accelerated her end by enabling her to indulge in her passion for drinking. At once the means and the victim of a long-deferred vengeance, she died miserably at the age of four and twenty. Old Sarah only survived her enemy, Sir Philip, by a few months; and as to James Carewe, and Brian, and Stephen Lee, they are living out unprofitable lives in the way best suited to their roving, restless temperaments. But Stella was only one-third gypsy after all. Such freedom-loving instincts as she has are tempered by a gracious womanliness and unobtrusive refinement, which make her a queen among the settlers and farmers in her new home, where, blessed with her husband’s and her children’s love, she can forget the sorrows and the trials of her girlhood’s years. THE END. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Gertrude Warden was the pseudonym of Gertrude Isobel Price. She was the younger sister of author/actress Florence Warden. Minor spelling inconsistencies (_e.g. evening-gown/evening gown, stepmother/step-mother, etc.) have been preserved. Alterations to the text: Punctuation: fix a few quotation mark pairings. [Prologue.--Part II] “William’s wife she said she felt she’d rather have died at once” delete first _she_. Change “a neighboring farmer had been _commisioned_ to bring” to _commissioned_. [Chapter VII] “as well as other points which had _puzzed_ her” to _puzzled_. [Chapter XII] “saw the _unimstakable_ relief in her face, and hastened” to _unmistakable_. [Chapter XV] “into the presence of his lovely _fianceé_” to _fiancée_. “the shrill, eldritch laughter of the hag Sarah _Carew_” to _Carewe_. [Chapter XVI] “Stephen’s hawk-eyes to distinguish anything Stopping still” add period after _anything_. [Chapter XVII] “He did not even see Dakin in _attendancce_ as his pale face” to _attendance_. “could hardly refrain from a little cry of _admiraton_” to _admiration_. “to whisper and mumble the necessary _reponses_ in the service” to _responses_. [Chapter XVIII] (“Handsome is as handsome does,” persisted the old old gentleman) delete one _old_. (“_Tis_ some trick of old Sarah’s,” he kept on repeating) to _’Tis_. [Chapter XIX] “you don’t bear me any _gruge_, do you?” to _grudge_. [Chapter XX] “he gathered little but that an _eldely_ woman named Tait” to _elderly_. [End of text]