Should She Have Left Him? — page 231: what you’re looking at

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THE OTHER, 225 “Why do you ask that?” “T want to think it all out.” They had reached Waldemar’s house, and the car- riage had stopped as Mrs. Trevor-Allen gave her consent. It did not require many minutes to persuade Ellen to give up the letter sought. Dorothy was her favorite, and it was enough for Dorothy to tell her that Hilda was ill at her home, and wished the letter. The two women returned, pleased that by the recovery of the letter a scandal had been averted. Dorothy found her sister sitting as she had left her, dry-eyed and staring into vacancy. She handed the letter to Hilda, telling her to destroy it. Hilda took it, stared at it dumbly, then realizing what it was, gave herself up to a paroxysm of anger. “Why do you interfere in my affairs?” she cried “T will go to him! He waits for me now! The man I ‘ She broke down and, throwing herself upon Dor- othy’s neck, burst into tears. “The best thing that could have happened to her,” commented the practical Mrs. Trevor-Allen. ‘It will save her from brain fever or something. Now put her to bed and I'll go home.” In the meantime, Trescotte had hurried to the opera house. The hour was late and the distance far. .He feared the opera would be over before he could get downtown. Calling a hack at the corner, he promised double fare to be driven rapidly. As Comicbookk<s