Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 197: what you’re looking at

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THE GHOST WALKS AT GORDON MANOR. 189 at least, was built before the Revolution, and there is a secret passage back of the library fireplace, that leads to a little room.”” ‘‘Any exit from that room ?”’ ‘There is a way of reaching the garden.”’ ‘‘Then it seems to me, if we want to catch the old gentleman, cunning enough to return to this house for something valuable that he desires to regain pos- session of, we ought to place one of our number at that exit.”? ‘‘Hxactly, after we have heard what these men are talking about. Perhaps they may give us a clew that will govern our actions,’’ is the sensible remark Bob ends with. He turns to his wife. ‘Lead on.”? Gypsy could walk through the quaint old manor house in the dark, so familiar is she with every nook and cranny, where she has played as a child and hidden from her old black mammy, to whom she was ever a flash of sunshine. She takes them straight to the drawing-room. ‘See, the connecting door is ajar—we will go this way—be careful,’’ is her warning, and directly across the parlor she leads her followers. They see the drift of her plans and realize how sensibly she looks at the matter. Through the partly open connecting doors they can see the whole of the library. Two men come within range of their vision and these are, of course, the ones whom they expect to find here—the French limb of the New York Bar ECoOmMmicbooks (C©) im