Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 234: what you’re looking at

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226 BOB FINDS—A FATHER-IN-LAW. ‘Meaning Josephine Armitage.’’ ‘Ves, she managed that little affair of last night so remarkably well that I give her credit for great engineering ability. If she has by any means found out the truth with regard to the game I played, we’ll see more of her before a great while.’’ ‘(She is a strange woman, and I am sorry she has conceived such a hatred toward me. It is one of the shadows on my life.”’ Bob assumes the guidance of the party. ‘‘Do you want to go there now, Gypsy ?”’ “VYes—no. Iam only anxious to do the right thing—would I could tell what was for the best.”’ A little more conversation and our friends return to the hotel, baffled, it is true, for the present, but with strong hopes, based on a good foundation, that they will eventually succeed. All adjourn to the private parlor that is a portion of Bob’s elegant suite of rooms. On the way, Pemberton is drawn aside by the Sen- ator, whose face has a look of eagerness upon it Bob cannot remember ever seeing before. ‘‘T wish to see you alone, my boy. I have some- thing of immense importance to communicate. Ar- range it,’’ says the Senator, and Bob knows another step has been taken in the game that will, in all probability, advance their cause. ‘I will excuse myself—wait here.’ He begs his wife to entertain the gentlemen for a brief time as he has some business below, and in a brief time joins the Senator. ‘‘Now I am at your service, my dear man.’? Gomichooksscom