'
"'Are you going to get a divorce then from her?'
"'I've been thinking it over,' I said carefully, and I had, 'and I think
the best way would be for her to get it. That can be done, can't it?' I
said, 'because I've been thinking of the child, and I don't want her to
grow up with any stain on the good name of her mother,' I said.
"'Then you will give up the child?' he said.
"And I said: 'Yes.'
"'Will he marry her?' he said again.
"'For what else did he take her away?'
"'If I was you,' he said, looking at me hard, 'I'd make sure of
that--before.'
"That worried me a good deal, and I went out and walked around, and then
I went to the station and bought a ticket for Chicago, and I said to
myself: 'I'll go and see him'; for by that time I'd made up my mind what
I'd do.
"And when I got there the next morning, I went straight to his house,
and my heart sank, for it was a great place with a high iron railing all
around it and a footman at the door--and I began to understand why Fanny
Montrose had left me for him.
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