Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 73: what you’re looking at

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64 GUY HAMMERSLEY. CHAPTER X. THE ARRIVAL AT BRILLING. Our friends of the Starr Concert Company were not due at Brilling until three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day. Meantime, as the colonel spent much of his time in the smoking car, the quartette had ample opportunity to discuss the situation among them- selves. And the Farleighs were as much astounded as were the Hammersleys on realizing that the troupe was not a large one, consisting of at least half a dozen artists. It had now resolved itself into an organiza- tion of only three; for Ward was merely to play the accompaniments. ‘*T'll tell you one thing that strikes me as jolly queer,” hesaid as he and Guy occupied seats together while the berths were being made up. ‘‘ You know when the colonel opened his satchel to get out those books for you. Well, he threw a lot of things out on the seat next tome, and among them was a handbill, and I’m positive neither Tellman’s nor Dart’s name was on it. Now these must have been printed some time ago, and the colonel claims that he did notknow of the defection of these two men till this afternoon, and he had no time to replace them.” (E@NMIELOCKO KS