Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 240: what you’re looking at

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232 LOOKING BACKWARD. time that when her grandfather died and she had access to his papers, there would be revealed some secret which affected the past, for she has apparently had reason to believe there is a mystery hanging over her life.’? ‘When shall we tell my wife ?’’ The Senator starts. “T hardly know. I long to clasp her in my arms, and yet, do you understand, fear lest he may have managed, in some insidious way, to have poisoned her ears against me.”’ ‘That fear, I am sure, is groundless. I will sound Gypsy and learn all.”’ ‘Thanks, my dear boy, from my heart; and if all is well, call me in. ‘Together we will be better fitted to discover whether the sad lady of the Alhambra flats is the one so dear to us.”’ ‘Have you then forgiven her ?’’ ‘Long, long ago; but of late I have been wonder- ing whether, after all, there was anything to forgive. ”’ “What ?”? ‘“T mean this—thatif Rudolph Gordon was so shrewd as to deceive me into the belief that both of my darlings were dead, it would have been an easy matter for him to have made it appear that Ruth had tun away with another. This suspicion has been etowing into a conviction, and when her story, if it so be that this is my wife, is told, I firmly believe we shall find that the wretched father to have been at the bottom of it all.” Bob is deeply impressed with what the Senator has told him, and when he leaves that worthy it is to go Gomichooksscom