Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 61: what you’re looking at

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52 GUY HAMMERSLEY. CHAPTER VIII. MRS. HAMMERSLEY CLOSES WITH THE COLONEL. Guy saw the warm blood rush into his mother’s cheeks, to be succeeded by a deadly pallor. She held the letter, so cruelly worded, out to him, and with one swift glance he had taken in the contents. ‘“‘It is all through me,” he told himself. ‘* Mr. Sinclair has heard of my dismissal from Fox & Bur- dell’s.” Meanwhile Mrs. Hammersley is speaking to the colonel. But what is this she is saying? ‘« Colonel Starr, I have decided to accept your offer. Consider me at your disposal, that is, on one condi- tion.” ‘¢ And what, madam, is that?” The colonel’s eyes glistened, and his two hands crept near to one another, as if to be all ready, in case the condition should not be too hard a one, to rub themselves against each other in token of felici- tation. ‘That you give my sona position with the troupe. — I cannot be separated from him.” The colonel’s hands spread apart, and one sought Gomicboo cS (C@) m