Should She Have Left Him? — page 31: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III. WIFED, NOT WEDDED. MR. AND MRS. TRESCOTTE breakfasted late on the morning following the evening Dorothy had heard the fragment of the sad story she told her husband. They were hardly seated at the table when Mr. Magrane, the lawyer who had piloted Trescotte through the sea of legal complications and finally landed him in the port of a millionaire, came to. them. Mr. Magrane had never met Mrs. Trescotte, and SO was presented by her happy possessor. As he told them he was just returned from the Pacific Coast, whither he had been for six months straight- ening out the troubles of the ownership of a gold mine, he regarded Mrs. Trescotte with so singular, and indeed curious, an interest that Dorothy was quite offended. And yet he madea marked effort to be agreeable, so apparent that she, keenly obser- vant and somewhat suspicious, concluded that there was ulterior purpose in the effort. Besides he puzzled her, for though she had not even heard of him before he presented himself, handsome, self. poised, polished in manner, there was about him 18 GOMMGIOO cS (GO)