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88 SHOULD SHE HAWE LEFT HIM? digested the situation. ‘It is the only thing she can do. If she remains with Trescotte her reputa- tion will be lost, and there will be no hope for her social rehabilitation.” “Ts there any now?” hopelessly asked the father. ‘‘Perhaps not at once,’ hesitatingly replied the lady. ‘But when we have made the true story known with our color of it, and, with the great influence our two families, with all their connections, can exert, it will be accomplished in time. Un- less——’”’ she added hastily, and then stopping with an anxious frown upon her face she lost herself in deep thought. : “What is the unless?” finally asked Mr. Courte- nay, tired of waiting for his wife to emerge. ‘“‘ Nothing, nothing,” replied that lady nervously, as she roused herself. ‘Order the breakfast, Her- bert. I’m famished. Afterward, I will go to Dorothy. While I am gone you can arrange for another apartment for her here. I shall bring her back with me.” “T don’t think you will,” replied her husband, as he crossed the room to touch the electric bell. ‘She seems determined to remain with Trescotte in spite of all.” Resuming his seat, he gave to his wife an inter- pretation of Dorothy’s argument of the previous day—an interpretation which his daughter assuredly would have repudiated. It was far from his inten. tion to misrepresent Dorothy’s views, but as it was a 4h 4 me ee Oe. oe —= ecomniclooouks (GO)