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time Mr. Masters was aware <strong>of</strong> Mrs. Thorn-<br />

ton s relationship to the lady before him.<br />

Was it real or only assumed to give <strong>her</strong><br />

position more security? No, he believed<br />

ij^ it—such a connection would account for<br />

a great many things which had puzzled<br />

him in Mrs. Thornton. He was amazed by<br />

<strong>her</strong> having appropriated the name <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong><br />

husband's Eectory.<br />

'' If poor Thornton only<br />

knew the use to which she has put the'one<br />

souvenir she has carried from <strong>her</strong> home,"<br />

he thought, as he sank into the very com-<br />

fortable easy chair into which Mrs. Harrup<br />

had inducted him.<br />

She would have comfortable chairs w<strong>her</strong>e-<br />

ever she went, just as she would have nice<br />

little suppers.<br />

Her husband had not pros-<br />

pered, in a pecuniary sense, since his mar-<br />

riage, but he had never before been so well<br />

cared for. She carried home with <strong>her</strong><br />

w<strong>her</strong>ever she went, and worked as hard <strong>of</strong>f<br />

the stage as on it. Henrietta Thornton,

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