Should She Have Left Him? — page 88: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III. A BEWILDERED FATHER. ‘Mr. COURTENAY returned to his club too much disturbed to engage in other business. One thought was uppermost; he must find Dorothy and take her home. But how? She had disappeared from sight, leaving no means of communication behind her. A mighty fear possessed him, crowd it down as he might; it was that Dorothy,in her dis- grace, had ended her life, and the thought of it made him very bitter toward Trescotte. On arriving at his club his wife’s letter was handed him. A hasty perusal assured him that Dorothy was safe and, moreover, in New York. A sentiment of grateful joy took the place of every otheremotion. He determined to go to Dorothy without delay. It never occurred to him that Tres- cotte was with her. Had he read his wife’s letter with more care, he would have seen that Dorothy and Trescotte were occupying the house together. Hehad gathered the essential fact that his daugh- ter was safe and alive, and the fact, in the distracted state he was in, was so important as to obscure all other considerations. And had not Magrane told him that Dorothy had left Trescotte immediately? 75 COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)