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z70 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? “She has your place,” returned the other; “she is occupying your rights.” At that moment there was a patter of running feet and the cry of “Mamma.” ‘The doors burst open and a handsome lad, dark-eyed and curly headed, ran in. He stopped abashed on seeing a stranger, and then shyly took the hand his mother held out to him. Mrs. Courtenay stared at him with wide open eyes. The boy was Trescotte at that age over again, as she had known him when his mother was her most intimate friend. “Ts that your firstborn,” she asked. ““My firstborn,” replied the mother, looking down sadly yet tenderly upon the lad who lifted Tres- cotte’s eyes to his mother. “Then,” said Mrs. Courtenay decidedly, “the more reason why you should claim your rights as Henry Trescotte’s wife and take possession of them.” | Mrs. Adams was confounded. She could not understand the other's words. She had supposed that the visit of Dorothy’s mother was to plead with her in her daughter’s interest, but she could not understand this urgency to put forward her claims as Trescotte’s wife. She said so to the elder lady. “Took at that child,” was the reply. ‘ He bears the proof of his paternity on his face.” The old, old trouble; the same charge; the same difficulty which had wrecked her married life. She Comicboolkks