Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 237: what you’re looking at

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LOOKING BACKWARD. 229 father-in-law? Senator—you know I am _ joking. From my heart, I can truly say Heaven be praised!’ CHAPTER XXVII. LOOKING BACKWARD. The two men who have so long been friends, and are now united by even a stronger bond, shake hands, as it were, to cement the new ties, and such a grasp with persons of their character means volumes. ‘*You have revealed a strange matter, John.’’ ‘But you have not heard all, my boy.”’ ‘‘Ah! there is more to tell—you have found your long-lost daughter—you suspect that this beautful, sad lady of the Alhambra flats v ‘Is my wife.”’ ‘That would indeed be strange. She goes to the world as Mrs. Wade.’’ | “What's in a name?”? ‘’That reminds me—iny wife was Hstelle Gordon —how could she be so if your child ?”’ ‘(Her name is Estelle Gordon Archer, though she evidently never heard the last part of it.”? “eStrancvess “Not at all. The old man hated me so thoroughly that my name was poison to him. How it was all done is a deep mystery to me, but one I mean to solve ECOmMmIicdooks (CO) in a)