’Dead!—­no, nor likely to die.  She’ll have a bad time of it with him yet.’

‘But she divorced him.’

’She got a Kansas lawyer to say so, and he’s got a Frisco lawyer to say that there’s nothing of the kind.  She hasn’t played her game badly neither, for she’s had the handling of her own money, and has put it so that he can’t get hold of a dollar.  Even if it suited other ways, you know, I wouldn’t marry her myself till I saw my way clearer out of the wood.’

‘I’m not thinking of marrying her,—­if you mean that.’

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