Should She Have Left Him? — page 244: what you’re looking at

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HILDA RETURNS HOME. 931 -Treecotte’s mission was not agreeable. A little thought showed him that his chances for success " would be better were he to deal with the elder Wal- demar. The younger man was pugnacious and would be inclined to ask upon what authority he, Trescotte, interfered in his marital affairs, and to suggest the advisability of straightening out his own troubles before engaging in an effort to correct those of other people, but he had given his word to Hilda, and there was no one else to act for her. So he sought the elder Waldemar in his bank parlor. There was an ominous frown and a dark look in his eyes as Trescotte revealed the turpitude of Wal- demar the younger. Noonecould be more insolent or more audaciously and courteously haughty than the elder Waldemar. “Do you not think,” said the old banker, with that accent which made his words so impressive, “that this is a very singular mission for you to be employed upon? One, my dear Mr. Trescotte, ought not to hurl stones if in a glass house he lives.” “Mr. Waldemar,” replied Mr. Trescotte, with an air quite as haughty and a tone quite as arrogant, “a man should not even refer to a matter of which he is wholly ignorant. I shall not affect not to under. stand that you are referring to that gossip which slanderous tongues distinguished me with. You are wholly ignorant as to my relations, and being so, any reference you may make to them is cowardly.” | **Sir!” oe _ “IT mean precisely what I say. If this is to end wr"™ CONMUG JOO cS (GO)