Should She Have Left Him? — page 33: what you’re looking at

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WIFED, NOT WEDDED. 27 enough to compel all, including Elsie and Adams, to make written statements, duly sworn to, setting forth the exact facts. It was about the only sensi- ble thing I did in the whole miserable affair.” ‘“T have just spent six months with Adams. His story agrees with yours in all essential particulars.” This was the only comment Mr. Magrane made on Trescotte’s story. After a period of silence, during which Trescotte waited for him, he spoke. ‘‘ Adams consulted me as to his own position in the matter three days ago. A new phase of this tangle was made known to him less than a year ago. A more complicated case never came under my review. I can reach no other conclusion than that Adams never was married to Miss Hallock.” oe Trescotte was surprised, and looked to Magrane to continue. The lawyer returned the look without speaking until the silence became embarrassing to both. It was the lawyer who broke it. “You do not seem to appreciate the weight of that remark.” | | “T certainly do,” returned Trescotte, brushing the ashes from his cigar. “It is very hard upon Mrs.— Miss—well, Elsie. I sympathize with her deeply. If weak and deficient in judgment, I think she wasa well-meaning girl, and she certainly loved Adams. It is hard for her to find at the end of all these years, though wedded she is not a wife.” ‘But she is a wife,” persisted Magrane. Comicloo S C@ 3}