Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 128: July December 1880 They re as a preface to what is to come, said Robert Lefroy, with an impudent leer upon his face. The questions, no doubt, are dis agreeable enough. She ain't your wife no more than she's mine. You've no business with her; and that you knew when you took her away from St Louis. You may, or you mayn't, have been fooled by some one down in Texas when you went back and married her in all that hurry. But you knew what you were doing well enough when you took her away. You won't dare to tell me that you hadn't seen Ferdinand when you two mizzled off from the College? Then he paused, waiting again for a reply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.