Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 84: what you’re looking at

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76 | ON THE ROAD TO DENVER. both. Were I less determined on a policy of revenge, what I have seen of you in this week’s time might have disarmed me—as it is my life is devoted to the one object of retaliation. Through you I lost what I desired most on earth—from my French mother I inherit a nature that will not brook interference. Hence you shall yet suffer, girl. Until we meet again, Qu 7 e€VOIr. JOSEPHINE ARMITAGE. ‘““P, S.—I take the horse you so kindly gave me. He is yours again when I reach Denver.”’ As Bob finishes, he hands the letter back. ‘fA strange woman—she will give you more trouble in the future or Iam mistaken. May I ask what you intend doing—have you formed any plans VEU ‘““Oh, yes. As soon as I heard your news last night I knew but one course remained for me.”’ ‘fAnd that??? ‘“To go from here to Denver, and, if necessary, to New York or Virginia. You have some idea of what ny grandfather’s death means to me, but you don’t know all. It’s a weird story, and if our lives run together for a time ‘“They will, if I have anything to say about it,’’ declares our Bob, vehemently, at which Gypsy smiles as though he amuses, yet pleases her. ‘‘T mean to take you further into my confidence, for I realize that it was no common accident that put you in the way of being Rudolph Gordon’s trusted messenger. He once wrote me that some time he would send some one to me whom I was to treat with great consideration.’? GComichbooksreo im