Should She Have Left Him? — page 76: what you’re looking at

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7° SHOULD SHE HAVE ‘LEPLT HIM? “Oh, something about property, I presume. Trescotte has made over that new house to Dorothy, through me. I'll goto the city ina few days. I have other matters calling me there.” Thus lightly dismissing the letter, he addressed himself to his coffee. The same day that Mr. Courtenay received his letter Mr. Magrane was notified that his telegram was undelivered, “the party having left town.” He therefore concluded that Dorothy had gone to her father, and that he was out of the affair, unless it got into the courts. When Dorothy “left town,” she had gone with Trescotte to Albany, and from thence to New York on the following day. While she could not see reason for such hasty departure from Saratoga, she had not opposed it. Once in New York, and in her own house, she was so busy organizing its internal economy that she permitted several days to pass before writing her mother of their sudden change of plans. Mr. Courtenay, little impressed by Mr. Magrane’s letter, had deferred his journey to New York from day to day, so that a week elapsed before he saw that gentleman. Since Dorothy made no mention of the momentous events which had sent them to a residence in New York in midsummer, the only effect of her letter on her mother was to cause that good lady to condemn the eccentricity of her daughter and son-in-law, and move her to write to her husband, who had departed before Dorothy's letter had been received, to call upon the young Comicbookks C@ 3}