Gilt and Guilty in the Gilded Age... "The Bumpy Ride"

Later that very afternoon, Sir Cedric Chalmers plunged over the nearby cliff at Punskins Crossings in that very same one-horse charboose. His young wife, Millie, happened to have stepped out of the little carriage to pick some Forget-Me-Nots for his lapel. Her tears at the inquest and her three fainting spells during the proceedings convinced the all-male-and-elderly jury... despite the fact that she had been married to Sir Cedric for only 28 hours.

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