Should She Have Left Him? — page 278: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XI. A SIMPLE SOLUTION. APPARENTLY the enterprise of the adoption of the boy languished. .Days wasted and weeks grew into months, and though Mr. Dayton’s communica- tions held out hopes, they meant delay. When hope was about gone, there came one day a letter from Buffalo informing them that Mrs. Adams had finally yielded, and consented to give up her boy to the care and adoption of Mr. and Mrs. Trescotte. And Mr. Dayton suggested that Trescotte and Dorothy should be in Buffalo on a certain specified day to receive the child. And further, that if Mr. Adams could be induced to be in that city, on that day, good ends would be served. The letter was particularly urgent that Mr. Magrane should on no account fail to be present, as the “short cut” had been found to be practicable. What that “short cut” was, puzzled Mr. Magrane. Being endowed with that great quality, patience, however, he dismissed the riddle until he could see Mr. Dayton. Though Mr. Adams demurred somewhat at what he called ““traveling in the dark,” yet he agreed to go with the party; and Mrs. Trevor-Allen, insisting that having ridden in the front from the beginning 265 COIN @ LOOO cS (GO)