Should She Have Left Him? — page 169: what you’re looking at

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MR. ADAMS ARRIVES. 163 could bring did they deny themselves, and they ignored society as calmly as society ignored them. December found them looking forward to an event of importance. Early in the month Mr. Adams, whose coming had been long expected by Mr. Magrane, arrived. Absent for many months upon the Pacific Coast, he was wholly unacquainted with the events detailed in the previous chapters. ‘That he had once con- sulted Mr. Magrane as to his own marital position, was warrant to the lawyer to open the subject again. “TI seem to be the pivot on which all turns,” Adams said after the lawyer had finished a recital of the events flowing from his discovery. “I don't know what to do. I thought I had decided upon a policy. But what you tell me sends me all adrift again. I hold nothing against Mr. Trescotte. He acted very handsomely in that Swiss affair—a little 99 foolishly perhaps “He admits that,’ broke in Mr. Magrane, “ and as well, very youthfully.”’ “Qh,” returned Adams, “his intention was all right. Hewanted to save Elsie from the conse- quences of her own wild act. The fault was with the Hallocks—father and son—they are birds of prey.” | “Do you mean they laid atrap for him?” asked the lawyer, reverting to an early suspicion. ““No; not atrap exactly. But they quickly com- prehended a situation in which they saw. oppor- Comicbookks