Should She Have Left Him? — page 192: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VI. A NEW TANGLE. ADAMS yielded to Mr. Magrane’s suggestion reluctantly. He was not convinced that good could result from an interview. The trouble was that Adams was not determined upona course. He was without a policy. Enterprises he had been nursing a long time had, within the year, come to fruition, and he had accumulated wealth. The administra- tion of it was difficult, because of the uncertain con- ditions of his marital relations. Viewing divorce as one path out of the difficulty, yet he shrank from the cutting of all the ties binding him to Elsie. He had gone to Mr. Magrane expecting to be strength- ened toward divorce and found the lawyer advising reconciliation. To this he was more than inclined. But the boy—Trescotte’s boy—that was the stum- bling-block. If the boy could be disposed of, the way would be clear. Reconciliation meant the assumption of the parentage of another man’s off- spring. Against this he revolted. It was in this indeterminate state of mind that he met Trescotte. There was a great deal of embar rassment upon both sides. When they exchanged views Adams discovered that one consideration 279 _ as, GOMMGIOO cS (GO)