"But father always liked you best, mother? How could he help it?"
"No," said Mrs. Kemp, "there was a time when he did not like me best. There were years when he loved the other woman, and I was—well, horribly unhappy. And yet, you see, he came back to me,—I fought through,—and you, my dear one, will fight through, please God, to be as happy a woman as your mother has been ever since you have known her."
THE END.
Transcriber Notes:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.
On page 3, "beautifu" was replaced with "beautiful".
On page 37, the word after "the doctor" was unclear, but it is listed as "repeated".
On page 38, "tnat" was replaced with "that".