For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 190: what you’re looking at

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Don't t you ae that in so ey hag you “have oranda yourself a coward?” | “So she has told you and saved me from doing 50% Young Denton breathed a sigh of relief. He had come too late with his awful confession. “Yes, she told us, your father and me,” said Faith, faintly. “Oh, it is dreadful—dreadful; I can’t uhulecel = e 9 cots tnd at!’ “Neither can I,’’ said James Denton, with a tinge of bitterness in his voice. “I have never understood how. I came to do it. I was a fool—an imbeciie—a lunatic, Miss Marvin. | married the girl without even dream- | ing that I loved her.” | Faith stared at him in surprise as he spoke the words. She was conscious even of a tiutter of happiness as she listened to the confession. “Then why did you marry her?” she asked at last. She watched eagerly to hear his answer. “It was all done for a lark,” began the young man. “We were out with some frie ends, Miss Brady and 1, and I—I suppose we had all been drinking too much; then some one suggested a wedding, and I was fool enough to play the bride egroom. “And you did not love her?’ Faith asked the question slowly. “Not a bit, Miss Marvin; I liked her, of course. But she was in love with me ; I discovered that later.” | “Why did you not own her as your wife?” Faith hardly ‘knew her own voice as she asked this. It hardly Shimied possible that she could speak so calmly. Mr. Denton looked at her sharply before he replied. “You can guess that surely,” he said very softly. “IKas— cal that I was, ! was ashamed to own her.” After a minute he went on with almost desperate calmness, as though he was determined to tell the whole of the distressing secret. 4 “T told her that dad would disown me if he knew that I had married her, but that if she would wait until I was twenty-one, that there would be no more danger of my losing my money. Mag likes money, you know, and she consented readily, but when she saw me flirting mies 2 «5 — rs - es . comicbooks.co it 2 . +h