Should She Have Left Him? — page 79: what you’re looking at

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AN ECCENTRIC HONE YMOON, 73 plication had presented itself, to the excitement of his anger. But as the effect upon Dorothy’s life and reputation infiltrated his understanding, he was overwhelmed with sorrow. Turning a distressed face upon the lawyer, in a broken voice, he asked : “What do you propose doing?” “T have done all I propose to do,” replied Mr. Magrane. “All I was authorized to do was to inform you. This I was requested to do by Mr. Trescotte.” “Where is Trescotte ?” “T don't know?” “Where is my daughter?” “TI don’t know. But as she left her Pe ot under my advice, on the day I informed her of the true state of affairs, and as she has not reached your house, I imagine she is waiting in some obscure place the result of my communication to you.” ‘She must come home at once,” stoutly declared the father. “I must find her and take her home. The poor stricken dear! And she is innocent! She is blameless, sir, blameless!” He added this in a fierce tone, as if Mr. Magrane would combat it. ‘“No honest mind would say the contrary,” calmly replied the lawyer. Rising from his chair, Mr. Courtenay leaned heavily on his cane, as he stood over the lawyer, and said: “Poor Dorothy! it is a bad mess. Her life is fuined at the outset.” A tear trickled dowm his face and was lost in his Comicloo® KS C@ 3