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THE TWO WOMEN

man, “for so soon intruding upon you with my marital infelicities, but, as my wife has neglected to furnish me with her address, I am deprived of the legitimate resource of a family row.”

“I am quite a plain man,” said Father Rogan, pleasantly; “but I do not see how I am to answer your questions.”

“Pardon my indirectness,” said Lorison, “I will ask one. In this room to-night you pronounced me a husband. You afterwards spoke of additional rites or performances that either should or could be effected. I paid little attention to your words then, but I am hungry to hear them repeated now. As matters stand, am I married past all help?”

“You are as legally and firmly bound,” said the priest, “as if it had been done in a cathedral in the presence of thousands. The additional observances I referred to are not necessary to the strictest legality of the act,

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