Should She Have Left Him? — page 38: what you’re looking at

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WIFED, NOT WEDDED. 25 “It looks as if it were a deep-laid trap for you,” interjected the lawyer. “No,” replied Trescotte positively, “for if it was, Elsie would necessarily have had to have been a party to it, and I am certain she was not. But I do think now that Mr. Hallock saw what the opportunity . afforded and took advantage of it. I myself, from my want of experience and by reason of my youth, set the trap. The father and son sprang it. Some question arising the next day as to the authority of this cousin to perform the ceremony on foreign soil, a civil marriage was had.” “Ah, there was your opportunity to escape,” cried the lawyer. “Yes, if the question had been raised at first, but a night had passed. Well, the details of our life for the next five months are unimportant. If we did not hate each other and quarrel, at least we made no professions of love. We were young, accepted our singular position with the light-hearted- ness of youth, tried to enjoy life as we found it, and to be agreeable to each other. What might have been the final result of our close association of course I cannot now tell, but when I recall Elsie’s sweet disposition and many admirable qualities, I can imagine I could have in time grown very fond of - her. But one morning, having joined the Hallock family at Berlin, a man named Adams—T[here Mr. Magrane showed increased interest ]—presented him- self, into whose arms Elsie rushed with a cry of joy. Adams declared he had come to take his legally ee... CONMUG JOO cS (GO)