Should She Have Left Him? — page 25: what you’re looking at

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WIFED, NOT WEDDED, 19 something strangely familiar. She could not divest herself of the fancy that this man, so agreeable and debonair, boded her no good. It was all very absurd and unjust, she knew. Her husband evi- dently respected and trusted the man. Their brief conversation revealed to her that Mr. Magrane was the lawyer whose ability and honorable dealing in Trescotte’s rise to wealth she had heard her husband so highly praise, yet when, moving away, the lawyer requested half an haur’s conversation with her husband on business after breakfast, her impulse was to warn her husband. Against what? That was thetrouble. She had nothing but her intuitions, and she knew that man laughed at the intuitions of woman. So Dorothy held her tongue. They breakfasted leisurely, Dorothy not a little depressed and making an effort to appear cheerful and happy. When Trescotte had taken her to their apart- ments he went in search of Magrane. The lawyer was found on the veranda just outside the doors of the great office, his morning paper lying unread on his knees, in a brown study, oblivious to the whirl and flash of the butterflies of fashion about him. He arose promptly when Trescotte spoke to him, and rather nervously said: “Let us go into Congress Park. I want to con. sult you on a matter of great concern. Wecan be entirely alone there.” They sauntered down Broadway, chatting on trivial matters, and turned into the Park, to a re- mote corner of which Magrane led Trescotte. Comicloeoe SS C@ 3