Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 77: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

68 GUY HAMMERSLEY. This brightly colored (in more senses than one) poster then went on to say: Miss Farleigh will be Assisted by Mrs. FLORENCE KING, The Eminent New York Soprano, Mr. REGINALD FAIRFAX, The Famous Boy Orator, and MASTER CLAIR DUFFET, Only Fifteen, and Accompanist. ‘*Who is Mr. Reginald Fairfax?” Guy wanted to know. ‘‘Why, that’s you of course,” returned Ward, ‘‘ and ‘Master Clair Duffet, only fifteen,’ is your humble servant. Not content with turning me into a French- man, our friend the colonel must needs dock me of a year on my age. I suppose he'll be wanting me to appear in knickerbockers to sustain the illusion.” Poor Ward spoke better than he knew. They had barely reached the hotel, where the two boys were assigned a room together, when the colonel presented himself in the doorway, smiling contentedly, and rubbing his hands together in a manner which, as Ward whispered to Guy, ‘‘ meant business.” ‘‘Here we are, young gentlemen,” he began, ‘all ready to commence our work. As soonas the ladies are a little rested we shall walk around to the opera house fora rehearsal, and meantime—ah, by the way, Gomiechboo CS (E(@) m