Should She Have Left Him? — page 9: what you’re looking at

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SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIMe BOOK I.—REVELATION. CHAPTER I. A SARATOGA EVENING. THE number ended with a crash of horns and kettledrums. Trescotte, under the pretense of loop- ing up a swaying branch of the creeping vine, threat- ening havoc to the cozffure of his bride of three months, leaned over her and said in a low tone: “Tl lure Davis away with the bait of a cigar; then shake him and come to you for a stroll in the park before retiring.” Mrs. Trescotte, young and beautiful, with shining eyes lifted a beaming acquiescence. For a fleeting moment Trescotte was tempted to defy the conventionalities and embrace his wife before the multitude. For a fleeting moment, too, Tracey Harte, leaning against a pillar in an adorable attitude, contemplated existence with such a woman apart from club, stable, and the English valet he had just achieved. As Trescotte, followed by Davis, carefully threaded Comiclbookks