Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 231: what you’re looking at

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BOB FINDS A FATHER-IN-LAW. 223 CHAPTER XXVI. BOB FINDS—A FATHER-IN-LAW. They turn around to discover near by a man whose features are of a pronounced Jewish cast. He seems to regard them with a smile, and has evidently heard all that has been said, though they never dreamed any one was within hearing distance. Bob steps toward him with a frown; his first thought is that this man represents some invention of the enemy to circumvent them—that he may even be concerned in the disappearance of the tenant of the French flat. Hence it is his intention to demolish him with a look, to make him understand as it were, that every- thing is known. With this idea in view, he faces the other, receives a bland smile, and hears him say: ‘Well, Bob, old fellow, they got a little ahead of you this time, eh ?”’ ‘Great Scott! it’s Craig himself,’’ ejaculates Bob, almost floored by the news. “Who else should it be, my dear man?’ returns the dandified Israelite, as he twirls a pair of eye- glasses in his fingers a la Lord Beaconsfield. “This is an immense surprise.’’ ‘‘Pleasure, too, let us hope.”’ “Indeed itis. Gypsy, my dear, this is my old friend, Craig—and this is Mrs. Bob.”’ ‘Delighted to meet one I have heard so much of, Connicoooxks.€o) in