Should She Have Left Him? — page 84: what you’re looking at

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78 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? contented. This certainly was confusing to a father who had come prepared to find a daughter over- whelmed with grief, and hurling reproaches at him for his failure to exercise proper protection of her. “Where is Trescotte now?” he suddenly asked. “He has gone a short distance. He will not be long.” Mr. Courtenay stared at his daughter. Then in his amazement he almost shouted his next question. “He is not here—living in this house ?”’ The scales dropped from Dorothy’s eyes. She knew now that her father had heard nothing as to their determination as to their future, but she answered smilingly with another question: “Did you suppose I was living here alone ?” Mr. Courtenay was speechless. Dorothy con. tinued to ask questions. “Did not mother tell you we had opened the house? I wrote her we had. Did not Mr. Magrane tell you?” ‘“‘ He told me you had left Trescotte,” interrupted her father, recovering somewhat from his confusion. “He was mistaken,” calmly replied Dorothy, nerving herself for the storm. ‘“ He advised that course, but did not give me sufficient reasons why I should leave my husband.” Her father was ina fog. It was plain to see he could not grasp the situation. His senses were obscured. One thing only was plain to him—the one thing he had seen from the beginning. He must take Dorothy home with him. Comicbookk<s C@ 3}