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-_ ~ PETECTIVE BOB BRIDGER. Peat “ Having resolved what I would do, I departed from the fair: widow’s abode with a foul lie upon my lips. ““T am bidding you adieu, Jennie’ (I called her Jennie now), ‘for a whole week, Iam sad to say. Business calls me to Buffalo, and I leave upon the train to-night. But of one thing rest assured—lI will provide myseif with a pocket full of those cigars at the hotel, and, when I am far away, every whiff of their fragrant smoke shall remind me of the charming smuggler to whom I am indebted for them.’ “*And you will call around when you return, Sam ?? “She called me Sam now. “*Will I? Just as soon as I strike Corydon, if not sooner. ’ “*Now, don’t forget.’ : : Songs Jennie, where the sugar is the poor fly must come, y-by.’ “And I walked away.” CHAPTER XI. LOVE AND MUSIQ. “Tom Bowling, the clerk of the hotel in Corydon, con- tinued the Scotch detective, “wasa jovial, good-hearted, sensible fellow. “The truth is, he was in love with the Widow Bibby him- self. , “One of the proprietors of the hotel firm had recently died, and T’om required several thousand in cash to buy in ——, but it would be base to say that his love for the fair widow did not go further, for it did. “Tom was very well informed regarding the widow’s affairs, and was positive that on the very next day An- nette’s weekly music lesson transpired. “He knew very well that my advent in Corydon had made a decided impression on Mrs. Bibby, but he was not in the least jealous. “He knew what I was after, and realized that so soon as I had departed from Corydon the fair widow would col- lapse and fall upon his manly breast for consolation. “That night I failed to start for Buffalo, and next day, when the two P. M. train was due from Garson, I stood aside in the Corydon station-house in a position to observe the arrivals. “The train glided in on time, and I had the satisfactiop — EOomichboo cS (ele)