Thrice Wedded, but Only Once a Wife — page 41: what you’re looking at

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39 PH RICH WEDDED. = at hat you have done. wf you will only say you are sorry she will be happy again.” Dora looked up in her mother’s face with a troubled ex- pression. ‘“Mamma,” she asked, ‘are you unhappy?” «Yes, dear, very, ' yeplied Mrs. Dupont. ‘‘Mamma, do you want me to tella lie?” «T have always told you to speak the truth, my child, 2 replied her mother, somewhat evasively. ‘No, but do you want me to tell one now?” Mrs. Dupont caught the child to her bosom as she whis- pered: ‘No, dear.” She then turned with a look of anguish to her visitors, and said: _«Tt’s of no use, gentlemen; I cannot ask my child to tell a falsehood even for this. I have always taught her to shun an untruth, and I cannot be the first to bid her speak one.’ Dora threw herself into her mother’s arms again, and bursting into tears, said, between her sobs: “‘Mamma, if Robbie was sorry, I should be—because—be- — cause if he didn’t want me for his wife I shouldn't want to be.”’ lips, while the lawyer, with tears in his eyes, turned to him and said: ‘“‘! think, my dear sir, you had better let this matter rest, _ atleast for the present. It is clear that the children love each other. It’s an odd predicament, I know, and I must Something very like a curse burst from Mr. Ellerton’s say I never before knew or heard of an attackment so str ong in persons so young. It may prove to their mutual happi- ~ ness hereafter, and therefore I advise you to let the subject drop.’ “No!” thundered Mr. Ellerton. “If the law won’t sep- arate them, I shall. ‘They are a couple of stubborn fools, _ and if they won't give in, I will send Robert off where he ~ shall never see the girl again, Once for all, what do you —..* gay, Robert?” “Oh, Robbie!” sobbed Dora. ‘Hush, darling,” whispered her mother, while she anx- -_iously waited Robert's reply. A look of anger flashed from the boy’s fine eyes, while the Comic 20 O &S ee . (G so)