Should She Have Left Him? — page 139: what you’re looking at

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126 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? Adams; and (the lawyer was cautious of statemer here) doubtless the lady had quite as much dislik for scandal as Mrs. Courtenay, and such a suit mus inevitably bring out the incident of the five montk- with Trescotte. Of course Adams could bring suit, but to what end? To establish the validity c a marriage, which, as it stood now, to him was invz lid, and re-impose obligations which he had shuffle: off ? | Looking at the matter from every side, anc believing that there was, in fact, a common lav marriage between Adams and Miss Hallock, Mr Magrane was of the opinion that the best thing t do was to do nothing. It was true that in the beginning Mr. Magran had advised Mrs. Trescotte to leave her husbanc but that was before this phase of the situation ha been presented. Upon consideration, he nov believed that Mrs. Trescotte was legally marriec and he would advise that she remain with her hu: band. Of course, this advice was based upon th assumption of the validity of the common law mar riage, which the more he thought of it, the mor he was inclined to believe was valid. If anyon wanted to dispute the verity of the assumptior then let that disputatious person undertake by leg: process to prove its falsity and thereby play the game, but until someone did, Mr. and Mrs. Trescott were justified in acting on the assumption. It nor seemed to him that Mrs. Trescotte’s instincts had bee true from the beginning, and that her position wa GOMMGIOO cS (GO)