It is doubtful if so young a bride was ever made the recipient of so many
diamonds as fell to Mona's lot that day.
Mr. Palmer, true to his promise, had all the recovered stones reset for
her, and made her a handsome gift besides. Mr. and Miss Cutler presented
to her a pair of beautiful stars for the hair, and Ray put a blazing
solitaire above her wedding-ring, for a guard.
After a sumptuous wedding-breakfast, the happy couple started for a trip
to the Golden Gate city, while during their absence, Mr. Palmer, senior,
had his residence partially remodeled and refurnished for the fair
daughter to whom already his heart had gone out in tender affection.
A notice of the marriage appeared in the papers, together with a
statement that "the handsome fortune left by the late Walter Dinsmore had
been restored to the young lady formerly known as Miss Mona Montague,
now Mrs. Raymond Palmer, who had been fraudulently deprived of it,
through the craftiness of a woman calling herself Mrs. Dinsmore."
Mona did not wish anything of her father's sad story to be made public,
and so, it was arranged that this was all that should be given to the
reporters, to show that she was Mr. Dinsmore's heiress, and would resume
her former position in the world upon her return from her bridal trip.
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