THE CITY



  GEORGE. Tough, isn't it

                            [With a great sigh.

  VAN VRANKEN. I was having an awful time,

George, with Mrs. Judly. She was giving it to

me good for being willing to patch it up, tempo-

rarily, with Tess! She didn't care about youl

I've come to the conclusion she don't care about

anybody, anyway, but herself. Her brother

telephoned it from his Club, and she - [his

anger rises] had the rottenness to say she be-

lieved there was something between Hannock

and Cicely. That was more than I could stand

for! God knows I'm as bad as they make them,

but, with that little girl dead like that -to

think such a thing, let alone say it -I don't

know! - It took it out of me, somehow! It

didn't seem to me it was the time to have a low

quarrel between two people like us! It made



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