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From the Housetops

CHAPTER IV
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Not in the way you would suspect, however.

He managed in very short order to convince her that it is a very ignorant mother who permits her daughter to marry a man without means.
They hadn't been married three years when his wife had learned her lesson.
It was too late to get rid of Roger, and by that time I was happily married to a girl who was quite as rich as I, and could afford to do as she pleased.

So, you see, Anne's grandmother had to leave me out of the case, even though Roger would have been perfectly delighted to have given her sufficient grounds for divorce.

I think you knew Anne's grandmother, Braden ?" He paused for an answer, a sly, appraising look in his eyes.
Receiving no response except a slight nod of the head, he chuckled softly and went on with the history.
"Poor soul, she's gone to her reward.

Now we come to Anne's mother.


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