Should She Have Left Him? — page 29: what you’re looking at

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‘6 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM} Mr. Courtenay made so light of the episode Tres- cotte had spoken of that he did not even mention it to his wife. Mrs. Courtenay, on her side, had her compensation, by achieving that which is so dear to woman heart—a grievance, which was_ tenderly nursed, not only by her, but by her dear friends, the matron mothers, who could afford to expend large sympathy, since their own ewe lambs were safe from the fascinations of this very dangerous young man. The engagement took up its place in the Courtenay household, where it was tolerated only by all save Dorothy, who, having made it her reli- gion, worked herself into a sort of exaltation in the contemplation that nothing sordid entered into her romance. A sensation of an extraordinary character, how- ever, marked the course of this romance. Two railroad companies, one nearly moribund, a goodly portion of the worthless stock and bonds of which were held by Trescotte and retained because he could not sell them, began a fight over a tract of land which someone had discovered contained lead, or iron, or coal, or something else equally dear to the railroad heart, the title deeds of which, curiously enough, were also held by Trescotte, as - evidences of his father’s foolish financial schemes. The young man was drawn into the very vortex of the fight, from which, after a laborious and bewildering period of two months, he emerged shorn of his stocks and bonds and title deeds, but — GOMMGIOO cS (GO)