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244 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? ’ humor and admiration. Withal there was sucha quizzical look that the lady was abashed. Then he quoted: “ Those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions.” For once that ready tongue was without reply. She blushed, becoming angry because she did, and blushed again. She was relieved by the entrance of a servant who brought the cards of Mr. and Mrs. | Trescotte. Hailing their coming as a deliverance, she instructed that they be brought to the apart: ment in which they were sitting. “We knew we should find you here, Mr. Magrane," said Dorothy, after the exchange of salutations, “and it was because of it that we came. Oh, I know that’s not nice, Lou, to you—that is, that it doesn’t seem so, but we have something to propose, and we wanted you two to hear it together and advise us.” “You hurt and flatter my pride in a breath,” laughed the widow, pleased to have the Trescottes there to stop that lawyer's disconcerting looks. ‘“‘What is the important Proposition?” “Harry will tell you,’ replied Dorothy, on whose cheeks were signs of the excitement she was labor- ing under. “It is very important and serious.” “It is something Mrs. Trescotte proposes.” Tres cotte as a matter of principle always spoke of his wife as Mrs. Trescotte before others, no-matter how close to her they were. ‘‘She overheard your con- GOMMGIOO cS (GO)