Should She Have Left Him? — page 211: what you’re looking at

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MRS. TREWOR-ALLEN’S PLAN. 205 “Why not?” “Because Mr. Adams will not be content to per- mit them,” replied Mrs. Trevor-Allen. ‘Something public will be done, and in it the true parentage of the boy will be revealed.”’ Dorothy listened with parted lips, holding her breath lest she lose a word, thankful that her father was on his favorite topic of real estate. “That will be bad,” continued the widow, “not alone for Mrs. Adams, but for the boy as well.” “Ah!” The lawyer had not thought of that. “And you mean , me asked, “That they must be reconciled.” “But how?” | “In the interest of the boy himself, she must part with him. You see it is something more than a simple choice between son and husband.” “T see.” “T think,” went on Mrs. Trevor-Allen, warming to her subject, “that if the fact were properly put be- fore Mrs. Adams she would see it.” “A mother will not part with her child when she ioves him,” remarked the lawyer sententiously. “A mother is capable of a sacrifice for her child you men cannot comprehend.” “Ah!” The tone was one of incredulity. “A mother’s love is without selfishness—the only unselfish thing I know in this selfish world.” “Except one thing,” said the lawyer, who had heard her story from Dorothy. Comicloeo SS EO