Should She Have Left Him? — page 178: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VY. FORTUNE'S FANTASTIC SPORTS. AN hour before Mr. Adams was to meet Mr. Trescotte, as arranged by Mr. Magrane, a young woman alighted froma public hack and climbed the steps of the Trescotte residence. A lad of eight or nine years accompanied her. When the door was opened to her, and she asked for the lady of the house, she was told that Mrs. Trescotte was not at home. Evidently she accepted the phrase as an euphe mism. “My call is on business, not a social one,’ she said. The servant, considering it a case for the con- sideration of higher authority, turned her into the reception room and disappeared. A moment later Downs, self-respectful and deferential, came and repeated the information with the addition that his mistress had gone out in the carriage and was expected home every moment. “I have come a long distance,” explained the young woman, ‘‘and my time is limited.” Downs, with that expertness born of long and 172 Comicbooks.c© 3}