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Updated: May 14, 2025
He saw a figure standing in the shadow, came forward and bowed, not at first looking closely at the face. "I have come from your husband," he said. "My name is Mark Telford" "Yes, I know," she interrupted. He started, came a little nearer and looked curiously at her. "Ida Ida Royal!" he exclaimed. "Are you you John Gladney's wife?" "He is my husband."
Then she went on to tell him who Mildred's mother and father were, what were Telford's relations to John Gladney and of his search for Gladney's wife. "Now," she said, "you understand all. They must meet." "He does not know who she is?" "He does not. He only knows as yet that she is the daughter of Mrs. Gladney, who, he thinks, is a stranger to him." "You know his nature. What will he do?"
Why should you take it so tragically?" "I do not know, but now" His head moved, his lips trembled. "But now she is the daughter of John Gladney's wife. She is loved and cared for by people who are better, infinitely better, than her father and mother were or could be. She believes her father is dead. And he is dead!" "My child! My child!" he whispered brokenly over the photograph.
And yet that was God's country with the sun on it, as Gladney used to say poor devil!" He dropped his eyes from the prospect before him and pushed the sod and ling with his foot musingly. "If I had been in Gladney's place, would I have done as he did, and if he had been in my place would he have done as I did?
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