Should She Have Left Him? — page 222: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III. HILDA’S ESCAPE. Hap Mr. Magrane waited for the next car, he would have seen, as soon as Mr. Courtenay left the house, the carriage cross the street, Hilda alight and run up the steps of the Trescotte house, and the carriage drive away. It so happened that as the door was opened to admit Hilda, Dorothy passed into the hall. As Hilda came forward Dorothy saw her. She was shocked. There was wildness, fear, despair in Hilda’s face. “Hilda!” Alarm and amazement were in Dorothy’s tones. - Her outcry brought Trescotte and Mrs. Trevor-Allen from the salon. Inthe way Hilda put out her hands to Dorothy there was a suggestion of the sense of having reached a safe haven. “Take me in and keep me!” she said. “Have you left your home?” asked Dorothy, greatly frightened. “Yes,” “And your husband?” “Yes.” Before Dorothy could ask more questions, Mrs, 209 COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)