Should She Have Left Him? — page 37: what you’re looking at

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A GIRL BECOMES A WOMAN. 31 the final result of the quarrel was that Elsie left Adams and went to her father’s house and care. There had been other children born to Elsie, and considerable property had accumulated, in the administration of which there had been some difti- culty and embarrassment so long as Elsie was under her father’s influence. Adams had brooded nearly a year over this discovery of his invalid marriage, confiding in no one, until being thrown into close relations with Magrane, and gaining con- fidence in the lawyer, he had taken counsel of him. Thus it was that the lawyer had learned of Tres- cotte’s plight and of the invalidity of the marriage just contracted. The lawyer’s story had the intended effect. ‘ My—Dorothy must be told,” said Trescotte. “She must not be kept in ignorance,’ emphati- cally declared Magrane. “It is your duty to tell her, and at once.” “] cant, 1 cant! God help me, I cant! You will tell her.” There was such pathos in Trescotte’s pleading, that Magrane, who had not contemplated such a duty, and shrank from it when suggested, at last consented. “Tf it is to be done,” he said rising briskly, “ it should be done at once.’ He waited for Trescotte to join him, but the poor fellow was loath to go. “T know,” said Magrane sympathetically, “ what a blow this is to you. I would have averted it if I Comicbookks C@ 3}