Should She Have Left Him? — page 236: what you’re looking at

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THE OTHER. 233 love into her ears, and ‘she listened with the eager- ness of a starved soul. So, when finally proposing to throw to the winds, for her sake and love, the ambitions of acareer he had cherished, he had offered flight as their destiny, she had accepted. ‘But at the very moment of its consummation she had recoiled, and in a panic escaped to Dorothy. “Does your husband know of your flight?” asked Derothy, when there was no more to be told. “‘No.”’ “But he has learned of it by this time?” ' Hilda laughed bitterly. “He rarely comes in until the night is nearly over, and then he goes straight to his own room. He will know to-morrow afternoon.” **He will know on finding you gone?” “I left a note to be handed him by Ellen.” Ellen was an old Courtenay servant, transferred to. Hilda. Dorothy thought a brief moment, and then said: “Stay where you are. Do not leave this room until I return.” Hastening to Trescotte and Mrs. Trevor-Allen, Dorothy told them so much as was necessary to make them understand the situation. “Lord Buttontrave must leave the country,’ said Trescotte promptly. .“I will attend to that. Then that letter to Waldemar—that must be recovered. When these things are done it will be time enough to consider the next step.” “My carriage is at the door, Dorothy,” said Mrs. . GOMMGIOO cS (GO)