Should She Have Left Him? — page 75: what you’re looking at

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AN ECCENTRIC HONEYMOON. 69 a fact he learned when he called at the residence, and which Trescotte and Dorothy might have told him had they not forgotton it in their agitation. Fearing, however, that they didn’t know it, he tele- graphed Dorothy that night, and returned to his snug bachelor quarters with the intention of writing the story to Mr. Courtenay. But when he sat down to do so he found difficulties. To merely inform her father that Dorothy was living with aman not her husband would be to convey false impressions; and to recite the circumstances in detail was to engage upon more than one evening’s labor, and his stenog- rapher was not at call. So he contented himself with a letter which requested Mr. Courtenay to call upon him, when that gentleman next visited New York, with reference to a matter deeply concerning his daughter, “now known as Mrs. Trescotte,” clos ing with the suggestion that were that visit made immediately, all purposes would be best served. Mr. Courtenay, on receiving this letter, condemned all lawyers to perdition for their non-committal ways and legal phraseology. “They are never certain of anything—these law. yers, he exclaimed, much irritated, as he threw the letter across the breakfast table to his wife. ‘The absurdity of that descriptive phrase, ‘now know as Mrs. Trescotte’! Bah! Their caution in statement amounts to insanity.” “‘ But what does he want ?” asked Mrs. Courtenay, more concerned about the business than the law yers way of presenting it. | Comicloo SS C@© 3}