Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 99: what you’re looking at

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90 GUY HAMMERSLEY. pretty little boy yonder has. But you haven't ex- plained to me yet where he has been all this _ time, and why it was you thought he was lost to you forever.” Briefly Mrs. Hammersley detailed the facts with which the reader has already been made acquainted, concluding by stating that she must return at once to New York to get the photograph which would prove her right to the guardianship of her boy. ‘‘ But how can you do that?” broke in Guy. ~ ‘‘ You know we leave here in the morning for Columbus, where we are booked to give a concert to-morrow night.” ‘* [ cannot go,” rejoined Mrs. Hammersley in firm tones. ‘‘ That is all there is about it. This matter is of vital importance to me and must be attended to.” At this instant there was a hasty knock at the door and Colonel Starr presented himself. ‘¢ Hammersley,” he said, addressing himself to Guy, ‘‘ we are waiting for you.” There was no help for it. With his heart wrung by the new phase his life had so suddenly assumed, the boy was compelled to go through with another humorous recital. But luckily it was now late in the evening, sO no encore was demanded, and as soon as possible Guy returned to Mrs. Hammersley’s dressing-room. Here he found his mother and the colonel engaged in a wordy war. ‘*‘ T have your signature, madam, to my contract,” the latter was saying, ‘‘guaranteeing me so many appearances, such contract not to be broken by either Gomicboo “S (€(@) m