Should She Have Left Him? — page 196: what you’re looking at

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A NEW TANGLE. 183 _ To this Elsie replied that she would not permit herself to be used to that end. “Used?” queried Dorothy. ‘There is something _ more in your mind?” “Yes,” answered Elsie. “This affair is so com- - plicated that it is difficult to say all you want to. This is what I want to say to you—what I have come to you from Buffalo for. My brother has learned on good authority that Mr. Adams is here i the city preparing to sue me for divorce. I fear, though my brother denies it, that it is by arrange- ment with my brother or with my father, and that they mean to establish that there was no marriage between us, so that it will come down to the mar- ; flage in Switzerland. That means they would try to force me to claim Mr. Trescotte as a husband.” Dorothy winced under this and looked very svere. “That is what your mother wanted me to do. But I refused her, and I never will consent.” “But,” said Dorothy, a little hard, though she tried not to be. ‘‘What would it serve them? Mr. Trescotte would resist.” “He is very rich, is he not?” asked Elsie inno- cently. “Oh, the sordidness of it! It isa miserable thing, and before the scandal is out I came here to save you this much misery and to tell you I will be no party to it. I have too much sympathy for you, for I know what it is to be torn from the man you love. I could not stay at home quietly until I had come and told you this. It seemed to be a duty.” mes Fa COIN LOOO cS (GO)