The outrage on his part must have been extreme, or the desperate alternative of abandonment would never have been taken by such a woman.
"There, my good friend and aforetime counsellor," added Hendrickson, "you have the unvarnished story.

A stern necessity drew around each of us bands of iron.

Yet we have been true to ourselves--and that means true to honor.

But now the darker features of the case are changed.

She is no longer the wife of Leon Dexter.