Should She Have Left Him? — page 13: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER II. DOROTHY’S IDYL. Mrs. TRESCOTTE was very happy. She had mar. ried the man of her choice. The opposition to Trescotte, because he lacked the wealth Mrs. Courtenay deemed necessary to the place her daughter should occupy in the exclusive world in which they moved, had been dispelled, happily, a few months before the wedding. Trescotte had grown to manhood, and lived the life thereafter of one having the assurance of a large inheritance, trained to no pursuit or profession, When, however, the elder Trescotte died it was dis. covered that he had devoted the last decade of his life to turning valuable New York real estate into questionable securities, with the result of nearly dis- sipating a fine property. At the end of some months of vexatious and confusing labor the young man found himself in possession of a property of only eight thousand a year—an amount which Mrs. Courtenay said some time later, when his income became a matter of concern to her, any clerk could earn in a twelve-month, and which was but half the amount young Waldemar, son of the great German banker, spent each year on his horses alone. 7 Comicbookks C@© 3