Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 110: what you’re looking at

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102 WHAT THE DOCTOR KNEW. This eagerness of the French lawyer to have Miss Gordon marry before the twenty-first 1s not much of a mystery to me.”’ ‘Bravo!’ cried Bob, jumping up and shaking hands with the medical man. ‘Providing the will stands that I signed as a wit- ness some years ago, and which Rudolph insisted on reading out to me clause after clause.’’ ‘Tell me its provisions.’’ “Tt left all his property to his beloved grand- child, Estelle—you who have seen the old man can enjoy the sarcasm of that phrase, ‘beloved grand- child.’ There was a severe condition. If she married under eighteen she would forfeit all.’’ Bob smiles broadly. ‘The animus is plain enough now. Her birthday falls on the twenty-first. ”’ “Tt is true. I was present at her birth in Old Virginia eighteen years ago. Her mother died in less than two weeks, a sweet lady, too, and Lee Gordon, her father, was killed in the hunting field not three years later. Let me see, I have a diary of those years —I will ascertain what it says.’’ He goes to a bookcase, and picking out one of a number of little volumes, sits down again, turning | over the leaves. ‘““Here we have the entry in black and white. October twenty-one, stormy day—attended the wife of Lee Gordon, who gave her husband a fine little girl. Lee very much disappointed, as he wished for a boy to keep up the name. Child delivered as per jy register at eleyen fifty-five,” Gomichbooksscom