Should She Have Left Him? — page 189: what you’re looking at

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A NEW TANGLE. 183 To this Elsie replied that she would not permit herself to be used to that end. “Used?” queried Dorothy. “There is something more in your mind?” “Yes,” answered Elsie. ‘This affair is so com- plicated that it is difficult to say all you want to. This is what I want to say to you—what I have come to you from Buffalo for. My brother has learned on good authority that Mr. Adams is here in the city preparing to sue me for divorce. I fear, though my brother denies it, that it is by arrange- ment with my brother or with my father, and that they mean to establish that there was no marriage between us, so that it will come down to the mar- riage in Switzerland. That means they would try to force me to claim Mr. Trescotte as a husband.” Dorothy winced under this and looked very severe. ‘“That is what your mother wanted me to do. But I refused her, and I never will consent.”’ “But,” said Dorothy, a little hard, though she. tried not to be. ees would it serve them? Mr. Trescotte would resist.’ ‘““He is very rich, is he not?’ asked Elsie inno- cently. ‘“‘Oh,the sordidness of it! It isa miserable thing, and before the scandal is out I came here to save you this much misery and to tell you I will be no party to it. I have too much sympathy for you, for I know what it is to be torn from the man you love. I could not stay at home quietly until I had come and told you this. It seemed to be a duty.” Comicloeo S C@ 3