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132 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? family is away and his household must be d ordered.” A strict regard for veracity compels me to nc that Mrs. Courtenay said nothing about her hurr trip to Buffalo, and her endeavor to persuade M Adams to set up claims to Trescotte as a husbai It really was of no importance in view of the turn affairs; it would have only complicated matte and it is doubtful whether her motives would hi been understood without a good deal of expla tion. When it was time for her to return to her ho her own hired carriage was dismissed, and she drc back in that splendid equipage which had so exci her admiration, with Trescotte and Dorothy, and the hotel there was a happy meeting with the fat in which the last vestige of bitterness was sw away. Mrs. Courtenay advised, and Mr. Courter urged, that the Trescottes should close their « house and visit Newport. The elder lady fea that the eccentricity of an open house in the sumr months would excite remarks, something at t juncture to be avoided. Trescotte urged, in sponse, that the closing of it again after openin: for two weeks would excite quite as much rem: and being sustained by Dorothy, declined, say that he was quite willing that the world sho believe him “spoons” on his wife, and of invent a new way of spending the honeymoon. Trescotte had a better and more profound rea GOMMGIOO cS (GO)