Has three or four children, one of them a baby.

They'll all go of course.

She said she should be glad enough to get away from Washington.

You know Selby has got his claim allowed, and they say he has had a run, of luck lately at Morrissey's." Laura heard all this in a kind of stupor, looking straight at Harry, without seeing him.

Is it possible, she was thinking, that this base wretch, after, all his promises, will take his wife and children and leave me?
Is it possible the town is saying all these things about me?
And a look of bitterness coming into her face--does the fool think he can escape so?
"You are angry with me, Laura," said Harry, not comprehending in the least what was going on in her mind.
"Angry ?" she said, forcing herself to come back to his presence.
"With you?
Oh no.