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Nicole kept in touch with d**k after her new marriage; there were letters on business matters, and about the children. When she said, as she often did, ‘I loved d**k and I’ll never forget him,’ Tommy answered, ‘Of course not, why should you?’
Dick opened an office in Buffalo, but evidently without success. Nicole did not find what the trouble was, but she heard a few months later that he was in a little town named Batavia, N.Y., practising general medicine, and later that he was in Lockport, doing the same thing. By accident she heard more about his life there than anywhere: that he bicycled a lot, was much admired by the ladies, and always had a big stack of papers on his desk that were known to be an important treatise on some medical subject, almost in process of completion. He w
