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202 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? as a woman, and her excellence as a wife. This will created astonishment, and caused the matron mothers, who recognized in the new widow a formid- able quantity in their problems, over their teacups | to comment: “No fool like an old fool,” and Mr. Magrane to say, with the applause of Mr. Trescotte, ‘“‘Whatever the old fellow was, he appreciated atrue woman when he found her.” Mr. Trévor-Allen was buried, and society attended in large numbers, just as if he had been the wisest and best of men. And Mrs. Trevor-Allen in robes of black, donned because con - vention demanded them, a very charming widow, laughed gayly without a single pretense of sorrow, because she was not a hypocrite. Summer came and went. Society flitted from the city and flitted back. This summer the Trescottes did not keep open house in the city. A cottage of the coast of Maine had been purchased, and thefe also Mrs. Trevor-Allen went to spend the months supposed to be devoted to mourning. When al involved in this tale returned to the city, the cof ditions were unchanged. Adams was upon th© Pacific Coast and Elsie was with her father. Not 2 step toward the unraveling of the tangle had bee#3 taken. One evening in the late autumn Mrs. Trevor- Allen and Mr. Magrane dined with the Trescottes. They met frequently at that table, now that Mrs. Trevor-Allen was withdrawn from society. The two were sitting apart after dinner while Mr. and Mrs, Trescotte were entertaining Mr, Courtenay, GOMMGIOO cS (GO)