II. — HIDDEN TREASUREFirst published in The Windsor Magazine , Vol. 51, Dec 1919-May 1920
Mrs. Staleyborn's first husband was a dreamy Fellow of a Learned University .
Her second husband had begun life at the bottom of the ladder as a three-card trickster, and by strict attention to business and the exercise of his natural genius, had attained to the proprietorship of a bucket-shop.
When Mrs. Staleyborn was Miss Clara Smith, she had been housekeeper to Professor Whitland, a biologist who discovered her indispensability, and was only vaguely aware of the social gulf which yawned between the youngest son of the late Lord Bortledyne and the only daughter of Albert Edward Smith, mechanic. To the Professor she was Miss H. Sapiens —an agreeable, featherless plantigrade biped of the genus Hom
