Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 63: what you’re looking at

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TOLD UNDEK THE MOON. 5d ‘‘Don’t you think I punished him quite enough?” she asks, quietly. Bob remembers how that little riding whip whistled through the air each time it fell with cutting em- phasis upon the face and neck of the coward Amos, and he shrugs his shoulders. ‘“Well, I reckon he’ll be pretty sore over it—yes, you gave him what he deserved, Miss Gypsy, but I feel as though I should have liked to have had a ‘finger in the pie.’? ‘“Wait—you may yet have plenty of chances to defeat the plans of such a schemer. ‘The end is not yet-—his employer is not in this affair for an hour or a day, but a lifetime. When you know the whole story, Bob Pemberton, you will understand that this strange incident which you have seen to-night is only one of a long list of similar occurrences, aimed against the owner of Hawk’s Nest.’’ ‘‘But there must be an object for such base opera- tions—a deep object, I am sure.”’ ‘‘And you are quite right. Perhaps you might find it hard to believe, from my manner, that I am perse- cuted as few girls have ever been, but you have seen encugh of me to see that trouble will not stick to me any more than water on a duck’s back; my nature is such that the bright side of things always appeals tome. I am merry under most discouraging circum- stances, and, even after the experience of this night, when a trusted servant has turned upon me, I am not despondent.”’ ‘CA wonderful and enviable disposition to have. I GCOMIIecdooks (€©) in