For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 202: what you’re looking at

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Pet CHAPTER XXXIX. \ THE PENANCE. FOR SIN, “Mag cie Brady” had been free for exactly a weeks but - the prison pallor had not yet left her features. Thanks to Mr. Denton, she had a comfortable home SS ‘and her husband was awaiting for permission to join her. She had not seen Faith since that day in the jail when she read the girl's carefully guarded secret, but in the few short interviews which she had with her husband she learned that which caused her to bless the young girl fer- | = vently. James Denton told her honestly that he did not love her, tat his manner as he said it was gentle, even tender. He regretted his foolish marriage, both for her sake and his own, still he was ready now to do his whole duty by her, and it - was Faith Marvin’s words that had taught him. that duty. But Maggie Brady was a greatly changed woman. ‘There were thoughts in her heart which she revealed to no one, but which influenced her every deed and decision. She had gone over and over her wasted life and could find no blame for any one individual, for, looked at from all points, it was conditions that were her enemies, con- _ ditions made by the rich in their greed of plunder, =~ — If she had been stronger she might have combatted these conditions, but the uselessness of such a struggle had been demonstrated by “so many—she did not have ppostage or faith in her own ability to conquer. | Like hundreds of poor girls, she had drifted from bad | to worse, until that mad marriage to Jim Denton capped _ the climax of her wickedness. is Now, with her newly awakened understanding she de-- sired to do penance for her sin. It was a part of that old. _ religion which she had long ago discarded. 4 At the confessional .she told her wrongdoing and. res comicbooks com é A» ’ , : Set. > i — . ‘ - i- “ . od 4 ecg ES WF a ¢ a 7 ia . P : pe —— o> <e: