CHAPTER XX

A NEW START When Cynthia paid her reckoning at the Continental Hotel and walked out into a strange city to seek her fortune, she did not feel in the least like a recreant wife. On the contrary the conviction that she was making the supreme sacrifice for the one supremely loved lent to her mood an exaltation such as has sent many a martyr smiling to the stake. Her sole assets were the scanty contents of the straw suit case, and a little over ten dollars remaining from the money Armitage had thrust into her hands the…