Should She Have Left Him? — page 187: what you’re looking at

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ANEW TANGLE, 181 “I should be the last one, anxious as I am for Mrs. Trescotte,’ promptly replied Trescotte, “‘to encourage divorce proceedings. The establishment of the legality of your marriage would bea very happy thing for Mrs. Trescotte and myself. But neither of us, I hope, are so lost to the rights of others as to try to secure such a result through the misery and unhappiness of Mrs. Adams. I am told that Mrs. Adams entertains all her old affection for you. I would much rather see a happy adjustment of your difficulties.” Adams put out his hand and grasped that of Trescotte warmly. “I know you would,” he said heartily. “You are that kind of aman. But—welli, Mr. Trescotte, there is something in the way that I cannot speak to you about—nothing,” he added quickly, ‘‘that reflects upon the good name or repute of Mrs. Adams.” Again that sensitiveness as to Elsie. It struck Mr. Trescotte as pathetic. While this was going forward in the library, Doro- thy and Elsie were conferring in the music room. “You say,” said Dorothy after she had closed the doors, ‘“‘that you have come to give me the assur- ance of sympathy; that you will do nothing to sepa rate me from the man I love. Am I in danger c separation?” “Are you not?” asked Elsie in some wonder. “T do not think so.” “Your mother said you ought to be, and pleaded with me to claim Mr. Trescotte as my husband: | cComiclasoo S C@