"She has been married nearly six years. Dear little Una! she is my cousin, and the name I gave her when I adopted her as my daughter was really her own. It is the oddest thing, too, that the nuns at the convent baptized her Marie, her own name, but in the French form. Fact is certainly stranger than fiction!" exclaimed Maud's husband, in wonder and delight. "It is wonderful, certainly," agreed Frayser, "and your visit to me to-day is one of the most wonderful things about it. I was beginning to give up all hope of finding the missing heiress, and Mme. Remond and her rascally husband were pressing me so furiously that I was beginning to fear I must make some concessions to them. But now all is made plain, and I can lay my hand on Lorraine's niece and heiress and oust her enemy from the place she has usurped so long. But I must tell you one thing, unless that missing will can be found, the ex-actress will make us trouble yet over Mrs. Van Zandt's inheritance." "Never mind about the will now. What is money when it lies in our power to reunite the crushed hearts of that long-parted husband and wife. Let us get into my carriage and go and fetch Una away from her convent to the side of her sick husband!" cried Carmontelle. "Agreed with all my heart!" answered Frayser. CHAPTER XLVI. Carmontelle found, as once before, his old acquaintance with the mother superior at the convent of good avail in securing admittance. The good woman met him in some wonder, and bowed stiffly to the little lawyer, who was looking about him in a good deal of curiosity. "What is the meaning of this visit?" she inquired, with calm dignity, although perfectly certain that it related to Una. She was not mistaken, for he immediately asked for her, and was told that Una would receive no one. "She is constantly engaged in devotion, fitting herself to retire forever from the world." "She will have to let the devotions go, and return to the world," Carmontelle answered, bluntly. "Monsieur!" reproachfully. "I mean what I say," he replied, earnestly. "I have to-day made discoveries that prove her the daughter of honorable parents--also heiress to a large fortune. There is nothing now to prevent her return to the world and to her husband, who has suffered so much from their separation." Madame, the superior, was unaffectedly happy at hearing this news. "Thank _le bon Dieu_ that it is so!" she exclaimed. "Oh, how the poor little one has suffered, believing the falsehood of wicked Madame Lorraine." She went hurriedly to seek Una with the joyful tidings, but it was some time before she returned. In truth, Una had been almost overcome by the shock of joy after the long night of sorrow and despair. "I am not the child of infamy! The blood that flows through my veins is noble and untainted! Heaven, I thank Thee!" cried the tortured girl, falling down upon her knees and hiding her face in her hands as she leaned forward upon her low cot bed.