“Samson was just, but he was also merciless. The awakening came like a thunder clap. He cast her off and applied for a divorce, which was given him; also the custody of the boy, then four years old. “Fearing she might attempt to steal the child, he sent him away, and for years did not look on his face, because it reminded him of a faithless wife.” “Ah,” breaks in the actor, “then the mother and boy were very much alike. Your speaking of Phœnix causes me to remember. She reminded me of someone. I see it now. The resemblance is marked.” Aleck smiles. He can afford to do so now, since he has learned of the relationship between Dorothy and the young miner. That both of them spring from the same father. Her “sacred mission,” is plain to him at last, for it must have a connection with some reconciliation between father and son. That is why Craig smiles. The teeth of his terror have been drawn, and he no longer need worry about the possible rival who comes out of the wild, untamed West. “Later on Samson went abroad. We know what happened to him there. He made a strange venture into the sea of matrimony, and, as before, drew a blank. Coming to Chicago he entered upon the speculative business, in which he has since become famous; but at that time he was only a small dog, a drop in the bucket, and unnoticed. “I do not know what trouble came up. We have believed the beautiful Georgian left him and fled to her native land again. Perhaps later on we may learn more about this. “At any rate, it was given out that she was dead. Dorothy believed so, and in all probability does so to-day. We chance to know that Marda the Georgian lives--that she is at the Fair, and has come for some definite purpose. “As to Adela--her life has been a sad one. Cast off by her husband she went back to Kentucky. She was still lovely, and it was not long before her hand was sought in marriage by a worthy gentleman. Investigation brought to light the fact that in granting the divorce to Cereal, the woman was still looked upon as married, and forbidden to ever again enter upon wedlock while her husband lived.