Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 85: what you’re looking at

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76 GUY HAMMERSLEY. Come off with me fora while, back here where we can be at handif wanted. There, see Ruth has gone to her, and the colonel has been sent away. Sister's a splendid hand in emergencies, and you may rely on her doing just the right thing.” Meanwhile Colonel Starr had hada message feebly whispered into his ear by the poor lady, who had grown terribly pale, and he was now going off to deliver it. But first he walked out to the center of the stage and addressed the audience. ‘‘Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, ‘‘I regret very much that our performance should have been inter- rupted in this manner. Mrs. King has received a very severe mental shock, from which she is now recovering. I doubt if she will be able to appear again this evening. However, we will know better about that aftera physician makes hisreport. Meane- time, the star of the occasion, Miss Ruth Farleigh, will appear before you and with her violin bow draw forth such magic strains as the walls of this building have never before echoed back.” A round of applause greeted this grandiloquent speech and then the colonel stepped over to the left- hand box and was seen to speak a few words to the gentleman with the gray side whiskers. The latter | immediately left the box and the colonel disappeared in the wings. ‘‘Judge Dodge isnot adoctor. I wonder what he is going behind for?” This was the question that a large proportion of the spectators put to themcelves when they saw this Gomicboo <=) (€() m