Should She Have Left Him? — page 185: what you’re looking at

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al aoR of and CHAPTER V. r. FORTUNE'S FANTASTIC SPORTS. ~ AN hour before Mr. Adams was to meet Mr. vi Trescotte, as arranged by Mr. Magrane, a young te woman alighted from a public hack and climbed the - steps of the Trescotte residence. A lad of eight of = nine years accompanied her. When the door was - > opened to her, and she asked for the lady of the §* rd house, she was told that Mrs. Trescotte was not at home. Evidently she accepted the phrase as an euph mism. “My call is on business, not a social one,” sh said. The servant, considering it a case for the co¥* sideration of higher authority, turned her into tr®° reception room and disappeared. A moment late Downs, self-respectful and deferential, came an repeated the information with the addition thas 7 his mistress had gone out in the carriage and wa = expected home every moment. “I have come a long distance,” explained the young woman, “‘and my time is limited.” Downs, with that expertness born of long an@ . 172 . . GOMMGIOO cS (GO)