Should She Have Left Him? — page 264: what you’re looking at

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258 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? reconciliation as a barter, nevertheless he deftly insinuated the idea, and left the mother to become accustomed to the thought. The next day he again sought her, and again went over the field of argument, and this time he had the satisfaction of finding that she contemplated the possibility of the IF, for she asked questions, and raised objections to be answered, not as if they were conclusive, as she had done the previous day. Finally Mr. Magrane said: ‘Mrs. Adams, you ought not to decide this ques- tion, either way, without the advice of someone who will look at it disinterestedly, yet from your stand- point, and whom you can trust. Do you not know some honorable lawyer to whom you can go?” Mrs. Adams caught at the idea, and mentioned a member of the bar of that city, whose name Mr. Magrane recognized as of high repute, and who has since risen to great distinction. Arranging to meet Mrs. Adams at that lawyer’s office the following day, ne lett her. When they met the next afternoon, Magrane-saw that Elsie still held the matter in abeyance. To Mr. Dayton, for such was the lawyer’s name Elsie had selected to advise her, he said: “Tf you will permit me, I will state the case from the beginning, and end with the proposition to sub- mit which to Mrs. Adams is the reason of my visit to Buffalo. If I go astray in any particular, Mrs. Adams will correct me. I shall make no argument, nor give color to my story. The parties I represent Comicboolkks C@© 3